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Health Care
Litigation
Our health care trial lawyers have built a reputation
for winning through dispositive motion practice or trial verdicts. Our health
care litigators concentrate their practice in representing health care clients.
We understand the industry and the laws and regulations that apply to it. With
this knowledge, together with our extensive trial and appellate experience,
we are uniquely positioned to advocate for our health care clients.
Our health care litigation attorneys prosecute and defend
actions nationwide. We are involved at all stages of the litigation process,
including the initial suit evaluation, discovery, and the trying of all types
of cases in state, federal and appellate courts and before arbitrators and mediators.
We are committed to working together with our clients to develop the most effective
litigation strategy and to consider settlement options and litigation alternatives.
For our institutional clients, we prosecute and defend actions
ranging from RICO to antitrust. Complex contract actions often arise in the
hospital and health system setting, and we possess the experience and expertise
to successfully litigate matters involving physicians, employees, joint venture
partners, payors and third-party administrators. The litigators in our health
care department have successfully defended antitrust actions ranging from physicians’
claims of exclusionary practices to government suits to block mergers.
Our attorneys offer an unmatched combination of skills, experience
and resources to resolve complex class action disputes involving the health
care industry. We have successfully defended our clients in a variety of class
action lawsuits in Federal and state courts throughout the United States. Our
experience includes obtaining pre-certification dismissals and summary judgments,
conducting class discovery, defeating class certification and obtaining decertification
of classes in cases of both local and national scope. Our litigators are currently
involved in defending a number of class actions involving health care providers
and payors. In the recent wave of class action suits filed against tax-exempt
hospitals alleging failure to fulfill their obligations related to uninsured
patients, we were selected to represent the Sisters of Mercy Health System in
the following two cases: Donna M. Meierer vs St. John’s Regional Health
Center and Melissa Bennett vs. St. Mary – Rogers Memorial Hospital, Inc.
Our attorneys have long represented managed care organizations
in many types of lawsuits. We have extensive experience defending claims arising
from denial of a claim and third party administrator decisions. We have also
represented managed care organizations in lawsuits against governmental agencies
and other complex contract actions.
Additionally, our attorneys have successfully litigated privacy
lawsuits, payment disputes, health care employment suits and white-collar actions
for a variety of health care clients. Representative actions include:
- Securities and commodities
- Warranty and UCC
- Construction cases
- Condemnation
- ERISA
- False Claims Act
- Libel and slander
- Creditors’ work – from routine collections to sophisticated reorganizations
- Patents
- RICO
- Common law fraud
- Statutory and constitutional interpretative questions
- Injunctive and equitable proceedings
- Environmental issues
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