Erin F. Frohardt

Associate

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Education

Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 2012, cum laude
Order of the Coif
Northwestern Law Review, Articles Editor
Colgate University, B.A., 2007, Chemistry

Practice Areas

Industries

Erin Frohardt defends companies and individuals in class actions, product liability, and professional liability lawsuits. Her experience includes defending clients in consumer fraud claims as well as traditional product liability involving personal injury and wrongful death, including concussion and traumatic brain injury cases.

Prior to joining Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell in 2013, Erin served as a judicial law clerk to The Honorable Jerome A. Holmes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Erin has also worked as a land assistant for a large oil and gas company in Colorado and as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health Imaging Probe Development Center and Laboratory of Computational Biophysics.

Legal Memberships, Activities, and Honors

Colorado Rising Stars
    Professional Liability Defense, 2016-2018
Legal Aid Foundation
   Associate Advisory Board, 2015-present
   Associates Campaign Representative, 2015-present
Colorado Women's Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association

Community Memberships, Activities, and Honors

Denver Kids Inc.
Member, Young Professionals Council, 2015-present

Personal Interests

Running, golf, baking, and crossword puzzles

Erin Frohardt defends companies and individuals in class actions, product liability, and professional liability lawsuits. Erin has developed meaningful experience representing highly visible clients in high-stakes litigation.

Representative Cases

Successfully represented franchisor Comfort Dental Group in a dispute in which a subfranchisor challenged the legality of the underlying business model. WTO also squashed follow-on litigation involving a complex lease dispute.
Snyder v. ACORD, 2016 WL 192270 (D. Colo.) - Successfully represented seven codefendants in a property insurance class action lawsuit in Colorado. Plaintiffs claimed they were systematically underinsured in a "monumental" conspiracy, in violation of federal RICO and antitrust laws, and involving virtually all property insurers in Colorado as well as industry trade groups. WTO served as liaison committee counsel, and the joint defense group ultimately won its motion to dismiss.
Hadjih v. Evenflo (D. Colo. 2015) - Won a complete defense jury verdict in federal court for Evenflo in a $15 million failure-to-warn trial arising out of permanent injuries to a child involved in an accident while riding in an Evenflo infant seat. This was the retrial of one claim from a 2012 case, which WTO won on the issues of design defect and consumer expectation. Failure-to-warn was taken from the jury on directed verdict, then appealed to the Tenth Circuit and sent back to the trial court for jury consideration.
Represent Whirlpool Corp. in various consumer product class action matters nationwide.
Represented Farmers Insurance in two Washington insurance class actions alleging unrepairable damage claims under UIM property-damage coverage.
Cortez v. USAA CIC - Won summary judgment for USAA based on a plaintiff's lack of standing in a putative class action regarding the contractual time limitation for medical payments coverage.
Representing a major commercial insurer in nationwide concussion and traumatic brain injury class action litigation involving the National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Hockey League, and U.S. Soccer Federation.
Defended a medical device maker against product liability and wrongful death claims involving a fire that allegedly broke out in the vicinity of a wheelchair manufactured by the company. The case settled favorably for WTO's client.

Bar and Court Admissions

Colorado
Illinois
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit