Mitch Reid is a trial lawyer who represents managed care organizations, insurers, and employers in high-stakes healthcare and ERISA disputes nationwide. He has handled more than 200 complex commercial arbitrations, consistently achieving favorable outcomes in matters involving significant financial exposure.
Mitch’s practice focuses on complex disputes involving health, disability, life, AD&D, and pension benefits. He routinely litigates ERISA benefits and fiduciary-duty claims, managed care provider disputes, payor-provider conflicts, and bad-faith insurance claims, as well as matters involving plan administration and benefits determinations.
He regularly handles complex and consequential litigation and arbitration arising out of managed care arrangements, including contractual and extra-contractual disputes with providers and hospitals, prompt-pay claims, reimbursement and overpayment disputes, and fraud-related claims involving healthcare providers. His experience spans disputes under ERISA, Medicare, FEHBA, the Affordable Care Act, and the No Surprises Act, as well as claims involving breach of contract, fraud, tortious interference, and breach of fiduciary duty. He represents clients in state and federal courts and arbitration proceedings across the United States, having represented both plaintiffs and defendants in large-scale commercial disputes involving these and other business tort claims.
In addition to his managed care and ERISA litigation practice, Mitch has experience in oil and gas disputes, toxic tort litigation, contract disputes, debt collection, Freedom of Information Act disputes, False Claims Act matters, and qui tam actions. Before entering private practice, Mitch served as a captain in the U.S. Army, specializing in military intelligence.
Representative Cases
- Represented a managed care company in parallel federal and state lawsuits brought by hospital systems seeking more than $46 million in statutory penalties for alleged violations of the Texas Prompt Pay Act on self-funded medical claims. The Fifth Circuit held that statutory penalties could not be imposed on self-funded plans and that the client was not liable to the hospital systems.
- Represented a managed care company in a JAMS arbitration filed by a hospital system seeking $14.3 million in damages under tortious-interference and third-party-contract claims. The arbitrator granted complete summary judgment in the client’s favor and dismissed all claims.
- Represented a managed care company in an AAA arbitration filed by a hospital system alleging violations of the Texas Prompt Pay Act and seeking $144 million in damages based on alleged delays in reimbursing thousands of hospital claims over a four-year period. The arbitrator ruled in the client’s favor on all legal issues and awarded the hospital approximately 1% of its requested damages.
Mitch is active in the legal community and has served in leadership roles with the Denver Bar Association, the Houston Bar Association, and the Houston Lawyer Referral Service. Mitch is the President-Elect of the Denver Bar Association after serving two years as the First Vice President. Mitch also serves on the Colorado Bar Association’s Military & Veterans Affairs Executive Council. He is a Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation, a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, and a Life Fellow of the Houston Young Lawyers Foundation.
Mitch also maintains an active pro bono practice. He is a volunteer attorney in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado’s Federal Limited Appearance Program and regularly provides pro bono services through the Colorado Bar Association’s Veterans Legal Assistance Program.
- Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas, 2024
- Texas Rising Stars list by Texas Monthly, 2011
- Houston Bar Association President’s Award, 2011, 2015, 2018, and 2021
- Texas Lawyer’s Local Heroes list, 2010
