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Burns White provides wide-ranging legal representation to health care and long-term care providers. Its services include medical and professional malpractice defense, institutional liability, personal injury, health care regulation, employment law, and corporate governance consultation in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Delaware and New Jersey.

For nearly two decades, our comprehensive team of attorneys from multiple legal disciplines has received favorable results in litigation and business law for organizations and professionals that provide medical care and extended-care residential services.

We recognize that members of the health care and residential care communities strive to treat each patient and resident as an individual, requiring a care plan tailored to his or her needs. Likewise, Burns White’s defense philosophy mirrors that of our clients: treat each case as unique and develop a plan of action early to deter or prevent litigation and, when necessary, to help achieve successful litigation outcomes.

Long-Term Care

Not long ago, nursing home litigation was an afterthought to traditional malpractice. However, this has dramatically changed during the past decade, with a sharp increase of litigation advancing unique theories of liability and damages. Losses from general and professional liability claims continue to increase, with a corresponding increase in insurance premiums and deductibles.

Burns White possesses a vast knowledge of the continuum of health care services from independent senior living to end-of-life care. Our attorneys have been at the forefront of long-term care defense for nearly two decades, having managed hundreds of independent senior living, assisted living, home health, skilled nursing and hospice care cases. This includes being the first firm in Pennsylvania to successfully defend a facility against a nationally prominent plaintiff's firm. The demonstrated achievements of our attorneys have resulted in numerous requests for them to lecture and provide in-service training to the long-term care community.

Medical Malpractice

Health care providers can count on Burns White for knowledgable guidance and effective representation, not just in the courtroom but as a means to reduce the risk of exposure to future claims or to prevent stressful and costly litigation. Our attorneys’ proactive approach encompasses thorough analysis and consultation in the areas of risk management, documentation, HIPAA and regulatory compliance.

The firm’s medical malpractice team includes attorneys who are also licensed medical professionals and are well-versed in the practices and procedures of physicians and other medical professionals.

Corporate and Administrative Services

The Burns White health and long-term care team is also well-versed in business matters at the administrative and corporate levels, such as mergers and acquisitions, employment law, workers’ compensation, risk management, corporate governance and construction law.

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