Steven Sklaver is a partner and member of the Executive Committee at the litigation boutique Susman Godfrey LLP. Mr. Sklaver has recovered over $225 million in benefits in cost of insurance (COI) class actions for original and secondary policyowners, including COI increase and mandatory COI decrease cases. Mr. Sklaver is currently lead counsel in or filed COI class actions against AXA, PHL Variable, John Hancock, Security Life of Denver, ReliaStar, North American, First-Penn Pacific, Lincoln, and VOYA. Mr. Sklaver graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law, and clerked for the Honorable David Ebel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.