David Ott Email & Phone Number

Lawyer and member of the firm’s award-winning Tort & Catastrophic Events practice group. I have extensive experience in a wide range of litigation areas including medical and professional malpractice, personal injury, products liability, and business and commercial matters. Tried 100+ cases in courts across the nation and successful verdicts have ranked among Missouri’s highest for at least a dozen years. Counsel clients on how to structure their business operations in order to avoid problems and minimize liability. Provide guidance on HIPAA compliance policies and procedures, and best practices for transitioning to electronic medical records.Disclaimer: The choice of lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements.

Listed skills include Legal Service, Health Care Litigation, Litigation, Healthcare, and 8 others.

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  Attorney

  Armstrong Teasdale Llp

  1997 - Present - Greater St. Louis Area

  I represent national health care corporations, hospitals, doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in a full spectrum of complex matters including wrongful death; obstetrics, including cerebral palsy, hypoxic-ischemic encephalitis, and birth traumas; surgical and emergency care; primary care and internal medicine claims; informed consent; medical specialty, such as cardiology, dentistry, ophthalmology, radiology, and neurology; hospital and home-health nursing; nursing home and long-term-care facility issues; slips-and-falls and all other non-medical premises liability and hospital torts. My work also encompasses off-label use of investigative drugs, “never events,” hospital training and policy issues.My work in products liability and personal injury includes wrongful deaths, auto and boating accidents, auto parts manufacturing, accident reconstruction and crash safety, construction injuries, professional liability, slips-and-falls and other premises liability. My cases routinely involve interaction between multiple parties in high-stakes disputes.My clients include parts manufacturers and corporations facing litigation and investigations involving welding and cutting products, shipping containers, product safety labeling, construction accidents, product performance and failure issues, improper training and product mishandling disputes. In my business and commercial practice, I provide counsel to individuals, small businesses, and multi-national corporations. This includes successfully prosecuting and defending businesses with respect to trademark litigation in federal and state courts. These cases also include business competition, employment concerns, breach of contract disputes and negotiations, product development and liability, premises liability, risk and claims investigations, regulatory issues, consumer fraud, banking and fiduciary duties, defamation, misrepresentation, commercial manufacturing negligence, and catastrophic events.