Category Archives: Healthcare

Partnership

Resolved break-up of two person partnership owning dental practice with 8-figure annual revenues.

Healthcare

Dispute involving break up of partnership providing nurse practitioners and medical services (including stem cell treatments) to chiropractic offices and patients.

Healthcare

Resolved claims involving allegations by hospital that competitor hospital — and owner of ambulance service — was diverting traffic of emergency medical services to its own hospital.

Healthcare

Resolved dispute between hospital and radiology group to which it outsourced its radiology services.  Issues included staffing of on-site services as well as timely performance of tele radiology services.

Health Care

Resolved disputes involving medical billing contracts and contractors.

Healthcare

Resolved claims related to trade secrets and non-compete and non-solicitation covenants involving hospice service providers.

Health Care

Resolved lawsuit against mental health facility alleging that a patient was severely beaten during its care.

Healthcare — Medical Device

Dispute between doctor/inventor and medical device manufacturer regarding what level of marketing is required to generate shared profits from the device

Health Care

Resolved issues related to departure of top neurosurgeon in relation to merger of two leading neurosurgical groups, including determination of fair value of partners’ shares.

Medical Malpractice

Plaintiff sued pathologist for missed diagnosis of cancer, resulting in two-year delay in treatment which allegedly brought his survival rate from 75% to 25%

Health Care

Resolved dispute between general partner and physician group related to proceeds from sale of large medical facility.

Commercial Disputes

Resolved case involving cost to remediate flood-damaged hospital.

Commercial Disputes (Health Care)

Resolved break up of large joint venture between two hospitals.

Healthcare

Resolved dispute between doctors/shareholders in prominent IVF practice.

Healthcare

Allegations of poor care and understaffing at nursing home resulting in death of resident.

Healthcare

Wrongful death claim re death of severely mentally handicapped 22 year old who drowned while in bathtub under home healthcare worker’s supervision.

Healthcare

Physician was one of approximately 30 members of a limited liability corporation organized to provide surgery and anesthesiology services to a local hospital. The corporation was governed by an operating agreement that provided for the withdrawal and termination of members. The physician filed for bankruptcy and the Trustee in his estate argued that the estate […]

Healthcare

A dispute arose among three members of a 40-50 physician multi-specialty group practice, which also owned and operated an out patient surgery center, a radiology imaging center, a radiation oncology center, a clinical laboratory and a medical office building. The physicians were organized into various group practices and three members formed a radiology practice which […]

Healthcare

Certain members of a large physician-owned limited liability corporation, which owned and operated an open sided MRI diagnostic center left that LLC to form a competing organization. Complaints and counter-claims alleged breach of operating agreements, breach of covenants not to compete, unfair competition, interference with contractual relations and violation of applicable state and federal statute. […]

Healthcare

A non-profit corporation that owned and operated a metropolitan hospital entered into a physician employment agreement with a general surgeon. The hospital purchased the stock owned by the physician in his medical practice business and entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement and Physician Employment Agreement. The hospital brought an action for damages and injunctive relief, […]

Healthcare

A corporation formed to provide medicine services for certain healthcare providers brought an action against the hospital with whom it had contracted. The service agreement was executed at the same time as the month to month lease for space within the hospital was entered into. The hospital terminated the lease and the corporation argued that […]

Healthcare

Multi-national health insurer brought a lawsuit against a large software company and multiple other parties alleging breach of contract, interference with contractual relationships, unfair competition and infringement and misappropriation of certain intellectual property. Several layers of insurers and re-insurers were involved in the mediation, which spanned several months and included detailed examinations of issues in […]