Hisham M. Amin

Hisham M. Amin is a member in the Baltimore office of Funk & Bolton, P.A. He concentrates in litigation on behalf of insurers in federal and state courts and administrative proceedings. Mr. Amin has represented insurers and self-funded plans in cases involving ERISA, discrimination in underwriting, fraud, and contractual and claim disputes. Prior to his association with Funk & Bolton, P.A., Mr. Amin served as law clerk to The Honorable Inez Smith Reid of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Mr. Amin has been awarded the Chicago Law Foundation Public Service Scholarship and the Yale Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship. Mr. Amin has published in the area of African American studies and has presented papers in African studies. He brings to the firm a deep commitment to racial issues, nurtured through years of academic and community service endeavors.

Mr. Amin is a member of the Defense Research Institute. He is President-Elect of the Monumental City Bar Association and Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association's Tort and Insurance Practice Section Health & Disability Law Committee.

Mr. Amin speaks and presents papers on ERISA, employee benefits, and life and health insurance matters. His presentations include (i) Speaker, 2007 Defense Research Institute Life, Health, Disability, and ERISA Claims Conference (March 2007); (ii) Co-author, 2005 Annual Report on Important Life Insurance Cases (April 2006); (iii) Co-author, Practical Considerations in Defending Mental Illness Disability Claims (March 2005); and (iv) Author, Complying with the New HIPAA Standards: What Maryland Paralegals Need to Know (August 2004).