Practice Areas & Industries: Roetzel & Andress, A Legal Professional Association

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Roetzel & Andress attorneys apply an integrated approach to assist our clients in addressing the multifaceted and complex issues faced by a broad range of health care industry organizations, personnel, and ancillary providers. Our attorneys provide a continuum of legal services to hospital groups, individual hospitals, single-specialty and multi-specialty physician groups, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, management service organizations, medical billing companies, and inventors, manufacturers, and distributors of medical devices, among others.

Representative Matters

• Defended hospitals, physicians, dentists, audiologists, pharmacie, pharmacists, and other health care entities against professional medical malpractice claims
• Structured and negotiated the acquisition of a state-affiliated acute care hospital's assets on behalf of a full-service health care provider
• Represented a 20-physician anesthesia practice, including internal shareholder and employment agreements and negotiations of contracts with third parties
• Represented several large hospital groups in collective bargaining negotiations
• Represented the nursing home in a 10(b)(5) securities fraud and common law fraud litigation
• Represented various hospitals in all types of employment-related matters including defending employment litigation and handling National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor matters
• Represented physicians and their practices in various matters of practice development, including entity formation, buy-sell agreements, practice dissolution, and negotiation of employment agreements
• Represented a bank group in connection with a letter of credit issued to support $112 million principal amount of variable rate multi-mode tax-exempt bonds issued for a multi-hospital health care system
• Represented several large hospital groups in labor negotiations
• Defended the largest private hospital system in Ohio in a multimillion dollar contract lawsuit involving the provision of a variety of home health services
• Represented a lender in financing a series of nursing home acquisitions and renovations by affiliated borrowers
• Represented several large hospitals in discrimination and retaliation suits, as well as in labor arbitration proceedings
• Negotiated numerous labor agreements with health care industry unions
• Counseled a major hospital in the joint venture and self-development of a health and wellness center
• Defended a health care provider against sexual harassment claims and hostile work environment allegations by a former employee
• Represented an acute care hospital in real estate leasing, tax exemption, acquisition, development, and construction issues
• Represented a medical practice against its former physician / employee and a hospital for both breach of non-compete and tortious interference
• Served as lead labor and employment counsel for a national health care system
• Assisted in defeating several union organizing campaigns
• Represented a dialysis business, from near-inception through sale, including: negotiations with physicians, operating agreements, management contracts; and legal work associated with its sale to a publicly-traded company, including negotiating asset sale agreements, equity interest sale agreements, consulting agreements, and due diligence