Thomas E. Loeser - Seattle, WA

Mr. Loeser is Of Counsel at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro where his practice focuses on class actions, false claims act (FCA)/whistleblower cases, consumer protection, and identity-theft/privacy. Mr. Loeser has successfully litigated class action lawsuits against mortgage lenders, appraisal management companies, title insurers and data processors. Mr. Loeser is currently prosecuting consumer protection class action cases against Aurora Loan Services, LLP, Chicago Title Insurance Co., KB Home, Pulte Homes, First American Title Insurance Co. and Countrywide (Bank of America). Under the False Claims Act, Mr. Loeser recently resolved litigation in the District of New Jersey which recovered fraudulently obtained Medicare Outlier payments from several hospitals. He is currently litigating a False Claims Act case in Seattle against an Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF) alleging the fraudulent billing of radiology services and illegal lease arrangements under the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Act. He is also handling a number of False Claims Act whistleblower suits now under seal.

Mr. Loeser has been trying cases in federal and state courts for 12 years, first in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and since 2007 in Seattle. He has been lead counsel in numerous federal jury trials and has presented over a dozen cases to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Mr. Loeser was a member of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section and regularly appeared in the Central District trial courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Since joining HBSS in early 2008, Mr. Loeser has investigated and prosecuted cases against builders, lenders, appraisal management companies, title insurers and escrow companies for profiteering and other fraud at the expense of borrowers and home-owners. He also applies his experience as a prosecutor to the investigation and prosecution of cases involving racketeering, false claims and government fraud. Mr. Loeser recently settled a case involving the theft of personal information of more than 400,000 customers of a national insurance company.

Mr. Loeser obtained his BA in physics (with a minor in Italian) from Middlebury College in 1988, where he was also a member of the alpine ski team. He earned an MBA, cum laude, from the University of Washington in 1994 and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the national business school honor society. He earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law in 1999, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an articles editor for Law & Contemporary Problems. Mr. Loeser is licensed to practice in Washington, California and the District of Columbia. He is admitted in the District Courts for the Central, Southern and Northern districts of California, and the Western District of Washington, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.