Medical Malpractice

Devine Millimet’s Medical Professional Liability Team is dedicated to providing institutions and individual healthcare providers with thorough, cost-effective, and successful representation in civil suits, administrative hearings, and criminal proceedings. The team has represented healthcare providers in federal and state courts and before administrative bodies throughout New England. Our combined years of experience have allowed us to develop key perspectives on the challenges facing healthcare providers today.

Our Services

Our litigators are uniquely experienced in defending healthcare providers not only against medical malpractice claims, but also:

• administrative investigations
• state licensing board disciplinary proceedings
• defamation cases
• anti-trust proceedings
• whistleblower litigation
• data breaches (HIPAA)
• class actions involving allegedly inappropriate putative billing

Representative Matters

• Obtained dismissal of a malpractice claim against an air ambulance crew for alleged failure to intubate a patient, resulting in neurologic damages.
• Successfully resolved a whistleblower case against a medical facility.
• Convinced plaintiff’s counsel not to pursue claim of improperly performed spinal fusion against orthopedic surgeon.
• Defeated class certification in a matter involving allegedly inappropriate billing practices.

Team members are involved in national and regional professional associations, such as the Defense Research Institute, the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Society of Healthcare Risk Managers, and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Members of Devine Millimet’s Medical Professional Liability Team are often selected as lecturers at seminars relating to medical malpractice, nursing and hospital liability, wrongful death, and trial practice. Individual members have been recognized nationally by Best Lawyers^® for their work in Healthcare Litigation and Healthcare Law, by Chambers and Partners for work representing the healthcare industry, and rated AV Preeminent^® by Martindale-Hubbell^®.