Practice Areas & Industries: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our attorneys have extensive experience defending hospitals, doctors, skilled nursing facilities, and other health care providers against medical malpractice claims. This work requires that we address a wide variety of malpractice allegations in numerous lawsuits.

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Our experience in medical malpractice defense cuts across nearly every area of medical expertise and all the sub-specialties including anesthesia, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, transplant medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, orthopedics, internal medicine, neurology and all the surgical specialties, to name a few.

Our current relationship with several major health care providers demonstrates the responsibility and trust placed in our Firm's medical malpractice attorneys. This representation requires that our attorneys appear in difficult jurisdictions - including the Circuit Courts for the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and Madison County and St. Clair, Illinois - on nearly a daily basis.

We have handled product liability litigation involving numerous drugs, including campazine, tetracycline, allopurinol, and various vaccines. We have an understanding of how the FDA approval process and standards within the medical profession affect the defense of such cases.

Our attorneys also represent numerous skilled nursing facilities in the St. Louis area and throughout the Midwest. We are nationally recognized, not only as litigators, but also as leading counsel to the long term care industry across the United States. Our work in this area frequently extends beyond a consultative role to the medical industry. In fact, attorneys in our Jefferson City office play a pivotal role in drafting and seeking legislative passage of tort reform statutes designed to protect the medical industry, curtail claims against health care providers and reduce average judgments in malpractice litigation generally.