Nursing Home & Long-Term Care Litigation
O’Brien & Ryan, LLP represents nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other long-term care facilities throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Our long-term care practice group consists of attorneys who dedicate their practices to the representation to these facilities. O’Brien & Ryan, LLP utilizes well respected experts in nursing, geriatric medicine and facility administration in the defense of our clients. We are also very familiar with federal and state regulation of nursing homes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the impact of regulations on nursing home litigation. O’Brien & Ryan, LLP has successfully defended long-term care facilities in cases involving medication errors, various types of pressure ulcers, falls, abuse, infections, and many other areas. The firm has also successfully defended our clients against corporate negligence claims and cases involving violations of federal and state regulations and employment matters.
O’Brien & Ryan, LLP has counseled clients on alternative dispute resolution and risk management strategies. The firm has also represented long-term care facilities in regulatory and administrative matters and white-collar criminal investigations. Our attorneys are experienced in representing individuals employed by long-term care facilities including medical directors, administrators, nurses and therapists. O’Brien & Ryan attorneys have lectured nationally on long-term care issues including malpractice prevention and risk management and defending long-term care facilities in litigation. It is our goal to provide the best possible defense to our institutional clients in a cost-effective and professional manner.
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Marshall L. Schwartz
(610) 834-6294 (610) 834-1749 Fax
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Negligence Of Client Is Affirmative Defense In Legal Malpractice Case
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in a matter of first impression, has held that the negligence of a client may be raised as an affirmative defense in a legal malpractice action that is based upon negligence. Gorski v. Smith, 812 A.2d 683 (Pa. Super. 2002),...
PA Supreme Court Considers Effect of Factual Admissions on Grant of Summary Judgment in Med Mal Action
In Stimmler v. Chestnut Hill Hospital, 602 Pa. 539, 981 A.2d 145 (2009), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently had the opportunity to consider the effect of factual admissions on the grant of summary judgment in a medical malpractice action. The...
Fewer Medical Malpractice Filings in Pennsylvania a Result of 2003 Reforms
The number of medical malpractice suits filed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania dipped slightly in 2008. This decrease may be attributable to two reforms instituted in 2003. These measures included a requirement that a medical malpractice case be filed in the county...
Superior Court of Pennsylvania Reinforces Liberal Standard For Qualification of Expert Witness
On January 4, 2008, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reinforced the liberal standard for qualification of an expert witness. In Novitski v. Rusak, on appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, the Superior Court affirmed the decision of the trial...
Superior Court Denies Appeal After Applying Elements of ‘Res Ipsa Loquitur’
On September 7, 2007, in a unanimous opinion regarding MacNutt v. Temple University Hospital, 2007 Pa. Super. 279, 932 A.2d 980 (Pa. Super. 2007), lead by Judge Gantman, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reviewed the trial court’s refusal to allow the...
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