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HIPAA Compliance: A Primer For Healthcare Providers
Article by Ryan King, Esq. Each year, health systems and individual health providers incur millions of dollars in fines for violating the Health...
Professional Liability & COVID: What Healthcare Providers In Pennsylvania Need To Know
Article by Andrew Hazi, Esq. and Ali Erndl, Esq. The COVID-19 pandemic has strained Pennsylvania’s healthcare system in unprecedented ways. In...
Attorneys McGeady and O’Connor Receive Dismissal For Urgent Care Providers
Attorneys David McGeady and Evan O’Connor received a dismissal of four physicians who were owners and founders of an urgent care provider that had...
Attorneys Johnson And Griffin Secure Defense Verdict In Medical Malpractice Case
Dave Johnson and Ashley Griffin secured a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case against a physician and his employer in Jefferson County on...
Attorneys O’Neal, Tanker & Murray Obtain Defense Verdict For Large Community Hospital
Burns White trial attorneys Stuart T. O’Neal and Marcy B. Tanker along with attorney William D. Murray and paralegal Ann Konchinsky, obtained a...
Attorney O’Mahoney Receives Defense Verdict For Nursing Home
Attorney Sean O’Mahoney represented a nursing home where the plaintiff decedent resided for 6.5 years. The claim at issue focused on recurring...
COVID Regulations Impacting the Long-Term Care Industry and Strategies to Mitigate Liability
Date: Wednesday, August 4 at 11:00 a.m. Speakers: Andrew C. Hazi, Esq. Materials: Read the transcription here Credits: PA CLE (1 credit) The...
Barbacane And O’Neal Obtain Summary Judgment On Behalf Of A Mercer County Hospital
Attorneys Stuart O’Neal and Courtney Barbacane obtained summary judgment on behalf of a Mercer County hospital on both punitive damages and...
Margonari, Podheiser, and Johnson Obtain Summary Judgment for Pennsylvania Hospital
Attorneys, Daniel Margonari, Ira Podheiser, and Dave Johnson, successfully defended an order granting summary judgment for a Pennsylvania hospital...
Summary Judgment For An Assisted Living Facility In New Jersey
Summary Judgment for an Assisted Living facility in New Jersey, represented by Attorneys William Mundy, Lauren Angeles, Ahsan Jafry, and Frantz...
O’Neal and Sottile Obtain Dismissal of Healthcare Organization on New Jersey Negligence Action
Burns White attorneys Stuart O’Neal and Mark Sottile obtained a complete dismissal of a negligence matter on behalf of a healthcare provider and...
Stuart T. O’Neal Interviews The Honorable David Shulkin on Healthcare Marketplace Issues
Recently, Burns White Executive Committee Member and Professional Liability co-chair, Stuart T. O'Neal, interviewed The Honorable David Shulkin, the...
Analysis of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s Executive Order Extending Immunity to Healthcare Professionals Responding to COVID-19
On May 6, 2020, Governor Wolf issued an Executive Order [hereinafter “Order”] to “Enhance Protections for Healthcare Professionals.” The Order...
Webinar: The Opportunities and Challenges of Telemedicine in the Healthcare Industry
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. EST Speaker: Ryan King, Esq. The practice of...
New Jersey Issues Executive Order 112 to Protect Healthcare Providers
On April 1, 2020, Governor Phil D. Murphy issued Executive Order 112. The broad-ranging decree was designed to provide legal protections to...
States Respond to COVID-19 to Protect Healthcare Workers
By Maria Granaudo Gesty, Esquire At least three states have responded to the COVID-19 state of emergency by enacting added protections for...
Reducing Risk Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
by Ryan J. King, Esquire Passed in 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was intended to prevent emergency departments...
Advanced Directives and Incapacity: When Should a Person’s Wishes be Overridden?
Article by Holli K. Bott, Esq. Burns White recently handled a matter in which a hospital sought to change a patient’s code from Full Code to DNR....
Mundy, Ciccone Obtain Federal Defense Verdict
Attorneys William J. Mundy and Nicholas F. Ciccone obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a local municipality, that municipality’s skilled nursing...
Burns White Exhibits at DHFCA Annual Trade Show
Burns White sponsored and exhibited at the Delaware Health Care Facilities Association (DHCFA) 26th Annual Trade Show on September 19 in Dover, DE.
Proposed Changes to Medical Malpractice Venue Rules Met with Opposition; Decision Delayed for Now
Article by Ashley Griffin The Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act, otherwise known as the MCARE Act, 40 P.S. §1303.101, et. seq.,...
Burns White Attorney Participates in Panel at GAO Annual Meeting
Attorney Joseph Macerelli participated in a panel at the Annual Meeting of Georgia Association of Orthodontists on February 22, 2019 in Greensboro,...
Arbitration-Related Discovery
Article by Jill Persico, Esq. Arbitration enforcement is key to transferring your case out of the Court System (and potentially a Plaintiff-friendly...
2018 Hospital Privilege Update
Article by Daniel Margonari, Esq. Once a lawsuit is brought against a hospital and the discovery process gets underway, hospitals have routinely...
Burns White Exhibits at PHCA Annual Convention and Trade Show
Attorneys John Skrocki, Bill Mundy, Amelia Curotto, Jill Persico, and Nicholas Ciccone attended and exhibited during the Pennsylvania Health Care...
Burns White Attorneys Granted Motion for Summary Judgment for Medical Center
Attorneys, Stuart O'Neal, Sean Maravich, Katherine Senior, and Amy Riley obtained a dismissal of the firm's client, a large regional medical center,...
Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Motion to Dismiss
Burns White attorneys, Maria Granaudo Gesty and Randall Teti, recently received a favorable outcome for their visiting nurse association client. A...