B. Allen Bradford, Esq.

Allen Bradford is the founder and managing attorney of the firm now known as Bradford, Gerardi & Associates, PLLC.  Allen is an experienced legal counselor and executive, having counseled managed care, health professional, IT and other business and professional clients for more than 35 years, including as Health Care Chief Counsel to a Fortune 200 corporation and now as legal counsel to multiple emerging businesses. Allen is well acquainted with the legal landscape that impacts his clients, such as the Affordable Care Act and its related regulations, Medicare Advantage regulations, HIPAA, state licensing and practice rules, corporate practice issues, major contracting issues, complex risk payment arrangements and more. He also understands the web of relationships between health professionals, insurers, employer groups, regulators, consumers and related contractors. He enjoys staying in touch with multiple contacts in the industries in which he works. The result is a practical, business oriented approach to advising clients.

Allen’s roots as counselor to professionals and growing businesses are broad and deep. He began his legal career representing health professionals and small businesses, including in entrepreneurial endeavors and as a commercial litigator.  He later joined Healthsource, Inc., leading a regional legal team that supported rapid growth in multiple states.  After CIGNA Corporation bought Healthsource, Allen held a variety of legal positions, supporting Operations, National Provider Contracting, external procurement and IT, ultimately becoming Chief Counsel for CIGNA HealthCare, CIGNA’s largest business segment. Yearning to return to his entrepreneurial roots, Allen embarked on a new path in 2010, establishing what was initially known as Bradford General Counsel Services to focus on supporting growing and emerging businesses and health professionals. Allen and his long time partner John Perlstein built what became known as Bradford, Perlstein & Associates into a thriving practice. After John's retirement in 2024, Allen asked long time associate Darlene Gerardi to lend her name to the firm.

Allen belongs to multiple bar associations, serves and has served on several boards, for-profit and non-for-profit.  He also serves on the Ethics Committee for Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Allen has spoken at numerous health law and business conferences. He has written articles and posts occasional blogs addressing practical health care claim and legal issues for consumers and small businesses, as well as on other subjects of interest to him (and sometimes to others).

Allen is licensed in the states of Connecticut, Georgia and Tennessee. He graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia and its School of Law, was elected Phi Beta Kappa and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone. His community activities have included Little League coaching, Boy Scout Citizenship Merit Badge counseling, the Simsbury Historical Society, political activities and support for non-profits. He is an amateur historian, avid college football fan and enjoys travel, hiking and camping.