Austin Mehr wrote a book about insurance bad faith in the early 90’s before other lawyers were aware that such cases existed. He has been asked to lecture to other lawyers about insurance dozens of times. He has tried more insurance bad faith cases to judgment than any other attorney in Kentucky. In addition to settling hundreds of cases, he has presented 13 insurance bad faith cases to juries over the last 20 years. No other lawyer in the state has done more than two such jury trials.
Austin represents people in bad faith insurance and ERISA claims, who have been treated unfairly and who don't get their claims paid fairly or promptly by insurance companies. It happens all too often.
Austin lives downtown Lexington with his wife, Jill Hall, who is also an attorney. They enjoy outdoor activities including skiing, boating, and cycling, and visiting their three children who live in Nashville, Colorado Springs, and Chicago.
Austin is a volunteer board member of the Fayette County Bar Association Foundation, a nonprofit that manages and donates money to various community legal nonprofit organizations to help people in the central Kentucky community. He is on the Board of the Carnegie Learning Center, a Lexington based non-profit that helps people, primarily children, to read and write. He volunteers his legal expertise to help people with limited resources on pro bono cases. Austin also devotes time to volunteer at the Fayette County Legal Help Center.
His published book “Bad Faith Insurance Law in Kentucky,” a book focusing on insurance law and the way insurance companies treated people, has been read by other lawyers and judges to understand how insurance companies sometimes treat people unfairly and in violation of our laws.
Austin has developed a law practice of 39 years, concentrating on representing individuals who have received unfair treatment on insurance claims.