Health Law

Murchison & Cumming, LLP is committed to providing quality legal services for our clients efficiently and economically. Our lawyers and staff are uncompromising on issues of integrity, honesty and client confidentiality. Client satisfaction is the only measure of our success.

Through our Health Law Practice Group, Murchison & Cumming, LLP provides a full range of defense services for medical and elder care cases, including in-depth investigation of facts of treatment, discovery, pretrial procedures, trial and appeal.

The Health Law Practice Group of Murchison & Cumming, LLP has put together a panel of experienced and recognized experts in the field of healthcare and long-term care facilities for assistance in the defense of medical malpractice and elder abuse cases. These experts include physicians, surgeons, licensed nurses, nursing homes administrators and other professionals

Cases handled by our Health Law Practice Group typically fall into one of two categories – medical malpractice or long-term care facilities and elder abuse.

Medical Malpractice

The Medical Malpractice Section of our Health Law Practice Group has formed a team of trial attorneys and paralegals dedicated to defending medical facilities, hospitals, medical and dental practitioners, family counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, physical occupational therapists, interns, radiologists and opthalmologists and other health care providers with claims of negligence and professional malpractice. Working closely with insurance carriers, risk management departments and health care professionals, we provide complete case evaluation services and aggressive courtroom defense.

The attorneys of this section have been called upon to speak at medical malpractice conferences and write articles for various medical organizations including the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and the Hip Society. Malpractice topics covered include the pros and cons of peer review in medical procedures, potential legal consequences of leg lengthening in hip replacement and general issues of risk management.

Long Term Care Facilities for the Elderly

The Long Term Care section of our Health Law Practice Group represents skilled nursing homes, residential care and assisted living facilities for the elderly. In addition to defending suits brought against these establishments, our attorneys often represent corporate owners, managers and personnel at these facilities against claims of abuse and negligence.

Members of the Long Term Care Facility for the Elderly section have served as advisory panel members of national organizations and task forces on nursing homes. One such taskforce, the Federation of Insurance & Corporate Counsel Nursing Home, developed a sophisticated defense package to answer the aggressive, organized attacks by the plaintiff’s bar in long-term care facility litigation. It utilizes focus groups and mock juries to study, analyze and defend the various cases with the assistance of the most qualified lawyers across the country, who share their expertise and knowledge, identify primary claims, evidence, and themes from previous cases and provide the best tactical approaches and strategic solutions possible.

In addition, attorneys from this section have participated at the Defense Research Institute’s (DRI) seminar on “Defending the Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facility Claim” wherein they spoke and wrote articles on the effects of pre-employment screening of nursing home personnel.

For more information about the Health Law Practice Group of Murchison & Cumming, LLP, its attorneys and services, please contact:

Michael B. Lawler, Co-Chair
Telephone: (213) 623-7400

Dan L. Longo, Co-Chair
Telephone: (714) 972-9977