  Medical Malpractice & Healthcare Law Frith Anderson & Peake PC handles the defense of a wide variety of medical negligence litigation in Virginia state and federal courts throughout southwestern Virginia, southside Virginia, and the Shenandoah Valley. This includes the defense of individual healthcare providers—physicians, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, chiropractors, and others. The firm also represents healthcare entities including hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. Our firm handles other types of healthcare litigation including privileges and credentialing matters. We also handle administrative proceedings for individual healthcare providers involving licensing and disciplinary issues. Our healthcare practice also assists clients on matters involving healthcare law and regulation. Healthcare Providers The firm’s medical malpractice experience has covered a wide variety of physician practices and specialties. Our senior partner who oversees this practice has been trying medical malpractice cases since the late 1980s. He has tried over thirty medical malpractice cases to verdict and other attorneys in the firm also have substantial trial experience and expertise. Our firm has an excellent track record in the cases that we have taken to trial, winning a very high percentage of them. Frith Anderson & Peake PC also has substantial experience in the representation of hospitals. Over the years, we have represented hospitals in a variety of cases, including: emergency medicine cases, including alleged misdiagnosis of ectopic pregnancy, alleged misdiagnosis of cardiac patients, cases under EMTALA [“Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act”], the development of decubitus ulcers, the defense of a hospital’s emergency medical personnel for the negligent provision of emergency services, and the failure to promptly administer electrical defibrillation to a patient in full cardiac arrhythmia. In the case of Garman v. Stonewall Jackson Hospital (W.D. Va. 1999), we obtained summary judgment for the hospital in an EMTALA case. Administrative, Professional Licensing, and Disciplinary Matters Frith Anderson & Peake PC has an active administrative practice and handles matters before professional licensing and regulatory boards, including the representation of health care professionals in disciplinary hearings. A number of our attorneys have experience and expertise in this field. Healthcare Entities The firm has defended dozens of long-term care cases, including the defense of both nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In defending these cases, we have developed an understanding of the unique legal and factual issues which are often presented in long term care litigation. Our attorneys have successfully handled essentially every type of long term care case that can be filed including those involving falls, decubitus ulcers, abuse and neglect, weight loss, assaults by both staff and residents, and medication errors. Our firm has handled these cases throughout the Roanoke valley, the Shenadoah Valley, southwest Virginia, and southside Virginia. We have also developed relationships with top-notch experts in the field of long term care and geriatric medicine. Our attorneys also regularly speak to long-term care industry groups about litigation prevention and documentation issues, as well as provide advice to area long-term care facilities on these issues. Other Healthcare Litigation Healthcare Law and Regulatory Matters For More Information For more information about this practice, please contact:
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