Roger K. Heidenreich

Roger K. Heidenreich is a Partner at Dentons, based in St. Louis, focusing on Insurance Law. He has a broad background in commercial litigation and has defended insurers, government contractors and manufacturers in many complex matters in trial courts and courts of appeal in Missouri and many other jurisdictions.

Roger has defended insurers in numerous class actions challenging claims settlement practices, premium rating, regulatory compliance, subrogation practices, market withdrawal and policy cancellation. He regularly provides insurance policy coverage advice and represents insurers in coverage and bad faith litigation.

His representative experience includes representing insurance companies in policy coverage and bad faith litigation; representing insurers in class actions challenging insurer claims and subrogation practices; representing manufacturers as national coordinating counsel in defence of product liability claims; representing insurance companies in defending wage and hour claims brought as collective actions by automobile physical damage appraisers; and representing government contractors in qui tam suits under the False Claims Act and in investigative inquiries initiated by DCAA, DCIS, GAO and the SEC.

Roger is a past recipient of Dentons’ annual Rothschild Award for outstanding service to pro bono clients. During his tenure on the Firm’s US Pro Bono Committee, the firm formed a collaboration with the Civil Justice Clinic at Washington University School of Law, and Dentons lawyers represented the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in a groundbreaking case challenging the subject matter jurisdiction of the tribal court. He is recognised by Best Lawyers in America as a Best Lawyer for Commercial Litigation (2024–2027) and by Law360’s Class Action Group of the Year (2014).

He has co-authored articles on insurance and employment law subjects published in the Insurance Litigation Reporter and the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and is Vice Chairman of the Procurement Fraud Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Public Contract Law.

His practice areas include accident and health insurance, bad faith defense, commercial litigation, coverage counseling and defense, employment and labour, employment disputes, ERISA litigation, government contractors and grantees, insurance and reinsurance, insurance litigation and arbitration, internal investigations, litigation and dispute resolution, product liability and complex torts, property, casualty and liability insurance, and state attorneys general. He holds a JD, cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago (1983) and a BA from Northwestern University (1978).