West Virginia's New Health Care Fraud Initiative
West Virginia’s New Health Care Fraud Initiative
Our well-balanced team of trial attorneys draws on over 30 years’ experience defending medical malpractice lawsuits, with historic successes trying cases to verdict and defending our results on appeal. We represent health systems, hospitals and other care providers in medical malpractice litigation involving everything from wrongful death and birth trauma to delayed diagnosis and products liability claims. We also have ready access to a stable of experts qualified in the fields of radiology, pathology, internal medicine, biomechanics and other areas paramount to a successful medical malpractice defense.
Our tactical approach and understanding, through experience, of the specialized medical and legal issues at play in malpractice lawsuits make us powerful allies to our health care clients. Whatever the specific circumstances of the case, we work diligently to protect our clients’ reputations and resolve claims in the smoothest, most efficient manner possible.
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Cincinnati, OH
Defense verdict on behalf of a hospital in a case involving an alleged failure to diagnose and properly treat spinal cord compression
Defense verdict on behalf of a hospital and its staff physicians in a case involving an alleged failure to diagnose and properly treat a hip facture First Chair
Defense verdict on behalf of a primary care physician in a case involving an alleged failure to timely diagnose breast cancer
Defense verdict on behalf of an emergency medicine physician in a case involving an alleged failure to diagnose and treat a hemothorax
Defense verdict on behalf of an orthopaedic surgeon in a case involving an alleged failure to diagnose and treat Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Defense verdict on behalf of an emergency medicine physician in a case involving an alleged failure to diagnose and treat a myocardial infarction
Defense verdict on behalf of a cardio-thoracic surgeon in a case involving an alleged failure to properly treat an aortic dissection
November 1, 2002 | Experience
Obtaining international trade compliance plan for both import/export operations which also include E...
January 1, 2003 | Experience
Plaintiff was attempting to collect death benefits from a life insurance policy issued by Western So...
April 17, 2003 | Experience
Disability discrimination case.
July 1, 2003 | Experience
FBT sought judgment that KMIC did not have to defend or indemnify its insured under a claims-made me...
December 18, 2003 | Experience
Claims of exposure to pressure treated wood, which was toxic.
December 18, 2003 | Experience
Insured brought suit in Boone Circuit Court, alleging that her husband’s death while operating...
January 1, 2004 | Experience
Plaintiffs filed product liability actions against manufacturers and retailers of respirators used b...
March 26, 2004 | Experience
Claim of negligence by defendant leaving debris and oil on road while constructing pipeline causing ...
March 30, 2004 | Experience
Plaintiff filed products liability action in Union Circuit Court against the manufacturers and retai...
April 27, 2004 | Experience
Client: Ford Motor Company Open date: April 27, 2004 Matter number: 0955636 Client role: Defenda...
July 13, 2004 | Experience
Kevin Schiferl and Richelle Harris obtained a defense verdict in a $3 million action arising out of ...
August 20, 2004 | Experience
Toxic tort case with 86 plaintiffs, including U.S. Air and its insurance company, Reliance National ...
September 1, 2004 | Experience
Appeals case for payment of plaintiff’s disability, contract, and benefits claims.
December 31, 2004 | Experience
This case arose out of an explosion and fire that occurred at the water injection plant that was ope...
January 1, 2005 | Experience
Plaintiff filed products liability action against drug manufacturer and physician, alleging suffered...
February 3, 2005 | Experience
Plaintiff alleged his three children became violently ill after consuming a pizza beyond its &q...
July 5, 2005 | Experience
Frost Brown Todd attorneys Lori Landrum and Ali Razzaghi of the Cincinnati office obtained summary j...
August 8, 2005 | Experience
This litigation arose out of a massive explosion that ripped through the West Pharmaceutical Service...
September 13, 2005 | Experience
Plaintiff alleged that prescription hormone therapy medication caused her to develop breast cancer.&...
November 1, 2005 | Experience
FBT was called on to defend a specialty chemical company in Louisville, Kentucky, from personal inju...
November 11, 2005 | Experience
Action against manufacturer of medication and doctors after patient’s death from heart attack ...
January 1, 2006 | Experience
NGL pipeline explosion; numerous personal injuries and property damages.
January 1, 2006 | Experience
Frost Brown Todd serves as coordinating counsel for the franchisees of a large well known fast food ...
January 1, 2006 | Experience
Claim against drug manufacturer of Bestra and Celebrex for negligence, products liability failure to...
January 1, 2006 | Experience
Plaintiffs brought action against drug manufacturer and sales representatives alleging harm caused b...
May 4, 2006 | Experience
Client: LG & E Open date: May 2006 Close date: April 2011 On May 21, 2006, three indiv...
June 23, 2006 | Experience
FBT attorneys settled a fidelity bond litigation action for Community Financial Services, Inc., agai...
November 1, 2006 | Experience
Kevin Tolliver v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Plaintiff survived summary judgment by asserti...
December 13, 2006 | Experience
RICO complaint filed against Mack by FBT lawyers on behalf of Grange Mutual, for failure to identify...
January 1, 2007 | Experience
320 Cases filed in Kentucky. Frost Brown Todd continues to represent the interests of Merck & Co...
January 18, 2007 | Experience
FBT was retained by a manufacturer of paints and solvents to defend a $160,000 product liability cla...
October 30, 2007 | Experience
Plaintiffs asserted a wrongful death action against LG & E based upon a premises liability theor...
November 27, 2007 | Experience
FBT has been retained by IHOP Corp. and Applebee’s International, Inc., to develop a purchasing co...
February 2, 2008 | Experience
Plaintiff sought damages for hearing loss allegedly resulting from use of his cellular telephone.
July 1, 2008 | Experience
Fisher et al. v. Elmo Greer and Sons This case concerned the duties a road contractor owes to the tr...
August 5, 2008 | Experience
Woodard v. Ford Motor Company A wrongful death case brought against Ford Motor Company by Zachary Wo...
January 1, 2009 | Experience
Frost Brown Todd currently serves as lead counsel in a multi millionconstruction products defect cas...
April 28, 2009 | Experience
After a two-day bench trial preceded by significant pre-trial motion practice, a District Judge for ...
May 1, 2009 | Experience
On March 16, 2011, an eight person federal court jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Yamah...
May 6, 2009 | Experience
Click here to download a PDF of our Fire and Explosion Litigation experience.
May 7, 2009 | Experience
Automotive Defends numerous international automobile and motorcycle manufacturers in product ...
April 28, 2010 | Experience
Beth Schneider Naylor and Doug Dennis successfully defended summary judgment in ...
May 5, 2010 | Publications
Table of Contents Kentucky’s Product Liability Act General Provisions Product Liability Action...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On November 5, 1973, fire was reported in the Grant building in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
At around 11:00 p.m. on February 20, 2003, rock and roll band “Great White” took the stage at an...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On June 2,1983 an Air Canada flight en route from Dallas, Texas to Montreal, Canada sustained a fire...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Class action against over 500 insurance carriers seeking to enjoin use of Colossus and similar bodil...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Bill Harter tried the Legal Management Services / Estate of Aaron Schneider case in September of 200...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
At 4:31 a.m. on a peaceful winter night, a series of violent explosions rumbled through two miles of...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
In 1980 a fire erupted in the large telephone exchange building on Wall Street. The fire burned larg...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On January 29, 2003, a massive explosion ripped through the West Pharmaceutical Services Plant in Ki...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On August 28, 2008 on behalf of CRC Insurance Services, David Walulik obtained summary judgment on a...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On January 6, 1996 the owner and operator of a Howard Johnson’s franchise motel intentionally set ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Bill Harter tried the Liberty Mutual / C&R case in December of 2008 in Franklin County, Ohio Com...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
A June 18, 2007 fire at a Charleston, SC furniture store originated at a loadingdock behind the faci...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Lisa Coulter and Bill Harter tried the Liberty Mutual / Mark Turner case in September of 2007 in the...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
An obese older woman with numerous pre-existing health problems slipped on a clear, slick substance ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Twenty-five food workers, trapped behind pad-locked doors, lost their lives when a fire ripped throu...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Scottsdale denied coverage and claimant proceeded to obtain verdict against purported insured f...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Plaintiffs claimed $6 million in lost profit and property damage due to fire allegedly caused by TIM...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Combined fire loss and bad faith case in the United States District Court in the Northern District o...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On December 3, 1980, less than two weeks after the blaze at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, a fire...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Collision between an automobile and a motorcycle, in which the motorcycle operator, defendant, was t...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Defense of the company in a negligence action brought by an employee of a contractor after a valve o...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Several serious wrongful death and personal injury cases.
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On November 8, 2004, a natural gas transmission line exploded in a residential subdivision in Ivel, ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On January 12, 1974 an explosion and fire occurred at the Louisville Gas & Electric natural gas ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On March 25, 1990, a spurned lover set fire to a dilapidated social club in the Bronx, New York — ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
This matter arose out of explosion and fire which occurred at a residential water well pump house lo...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Former Locke Reynolds – March 2008 – The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
FBT is presently engaged in the defense of U.S. Greenfiber, the manufacturer of a product used in re...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Tom Thornburg presented at St. Mary’s Hospital for the implantation of a defibrillator due to ...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
On June 20, 2008, a twelve member Marshall County, Alabama jury returned a unanimous defense verdict...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
First-party bad faith case arising from claims related to Liberty Mutual’s handling of an unin...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
In 1991, the One Meridian Office Tower Plaza, a 38-story high rise tower located in the heart of dow...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
This case arises out of the May 20, 2006 explosion at the Kentucky Darby Mine in Harlan County, Kent...
October 12, 2010 | Experience
Plaintiff sought more than $100,000 in damages after a 100 year-old tree fell on his business facili...
March 25, 2011 | Experience
Ayala v. Ford Motor Company On August 5, 2005, an eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court for t...
March 28, 2011 | Experience
The Indiana Supreme Court handed down an opinion in favor of Ford Motor Company and a Ford dealershi...
April 1, 2011 | Experience
Client: Kentucky Utilities Co. Close date: April 2011 Client role: Defendant On May 21, 20...
April 28, 2011 | Experience
August 2010 (Indianapolis, IN) – After deliberating for just one hour, a Hamilton County Superior ...
November 9, 2011 | Experience
On November 9, 2011, an eight member jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern Distri...
May 4, 2012 | Publications
The term “learned intermediary” was coined in a 1966 decision by the Eighth Circuit when the cou...
January 28, 2013 | Publications
Introduction Manufacturers of dozers, backhoes, forklifts and other similar pieces of equipment are ...
March 17, 2015 | Publications
In a long-awaited decision important to Ohio employers and their insurers, the Ohio Supreme Court ha...
June 3, 2015 | Publications
“The only thing that keeps us alive is our brilliance. The only thing protecting our brillianc...
August 11, 2015 | Publications
“Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of pri...
January 7, 2016 | Publications
In 2015, the world watched as two researchers wirelessly hacked into a Jeep Cherokee through its das...
November 30, 2016 | Publications
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) has proposed to amend the NCOIL Limited Lin...
August 20, 2018 | Publications
A. Facts and Scope of Review If a manufacturer wants to sell its products to customers in the US, it...
December 19, 2018 | Publications
The term “learned intermediary” was coined when a federal appellate court reasoned that, in situ...
August 5, 2019 | Publications
Recently, a Federal grand jury in California indicted two corporate executives for failing to report...
September 4, 2019 | Experience
When a number of small airplanes experienced engine crankshaft failure and crashed, engine maker Lyc...
December 6, 2019 | Publications
If you are a manufacturer of branded products in high demand, or with a significant share of the mar...
April 10, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
On April 9, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order which extends grace peri...
October 6, 2020 | Publications
Just three years after deciding Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Franci...
March 30, 2021 | Publications
On March 25, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth ...
April 9, 2021 | Publications
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. The ARPA, among o...
June 30, 2021 | Publications
On June 15, 2021, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals issued its decision in Jordan v. Jenki...
August 12, 2021 | Publications
Table of Contents Selected Definitions Used in Indiana’s Product Liability Act Indiana’s Pro...