Health Law

Fox Smith has a team of experienced attorneys, paralegals, and registered nurses working together to represent hospitals, physicians and physicians’ groups, nurses, and other medical professionals and health insurance companies in the state and federal courts of Missouri and Illinois.

Fox Smith lawyers have successfully worked with medical professionals and institutions in many areas including:

In our Health Law trial practice, we have achieved favorable results for clients in difficult venues, including the City of St. Louis and Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois, as well as other venues throughout Missouri and Illinois.

Fox Smith’s medical and health care clients include healthcare providers and entities located all over the States of Missouri and Illinois, as well as multiple insurers of medical professionals specializing in all fields of medicine. In their defense of their clients, our Attorneys have obtained successful results, including numerous defense verdicts, including:

Defense verdicts for the largest taxi cab company in the City of St. Louis, including defense verdict in admitted liability case.
Defense verdict in personal injury matter brought in federal district court against a local amusement park in Jersey County, Illinois.
Defense verdict on behalf of orthopedic surgeon involving post-operative infection.
Directed verdict in favor of medical provider in case tried in City of St. Louis alleging failure to diagnose ischemic bowel.
Defense verdict in favor of medical provider involving allegations of injury due to patient fall.
After a four day jury trial in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois, a defense verdict in favor of his client, a psychiatrist, who was accused of mismanaging his patient’s psychotropic medications thus leading to death by suicide.
After a seven day medical malpractice trial in Williamson County, Illinois, a defense verdict in favor of his physician client in a case where the plaintiffs alleged medical negligence arising out of a vasectomy.
After a seven day jury trial in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Illinois, a defense verdict in favor of his client, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who was sued by a former patient claiming she sustained a ureter injury during the course of a laparoscopic hysterectomy as a result of the doctor’s negligence.
After a four week, wrongful death case jury trial in the Circuit Court of Williamson County, Illinois, where the plaintiff asked the jury for $5,000,000, a defense verdict in favor of his client, an obstetrician-gynecologist, whose patient passed away following a tension free vaginal tape (TVT) surgery for mixed urinary incontinence.
Summary judgments and dismissals of his clients in state and federal court in various types of employment-related cases, including those arising Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the ADA, the ADEA, the Missouri Human Rights Act, and the Illinois Human Rights Act.

In addition, Fox Smith attorneys have been asked to write and lecture in the areas of healthcare risk management.

The Fox Smith health care team is committed to providing superior legal services and an aggressive defense to our health care clients. Using our experience, medical expertise, expert witness resources, and technology, we are able to provide our clients the highest quality of service in a timely and cost efficient manner.