Nicholas Bertschy Email & Phone Number

Nick has been practicing law with Heyl Royster since 1981. His focus has been defense of personal injury and wrongful death civil litigation. He has successfully sole/first-chaired high exposure cases to verdict and has obtained many outright dismissals and summary judgments. He is a forceful and effective negotiator and has advantageously mediated and resolved many difficult cases. Nick's practice involves primarily the defense of cases of serious personal injury, often involving catastrophic loss, and wrongful death, and he has earned a reputation as a creative, versatile and challenging litigator. Over the years, Nick has had the unique privilege of training under some of the firm’s most outstanding litigators, collaborating with top members of the Illinois and national defense bar, and opposing premier plaintiff’s firms. Nick’s areas of practice include healthcare malpractice, nursing home and LTC litigation, product liability, construction liability, premises liability, vehicular accident, and liquor liability. In the healthcare field Nick regularly defends physicians, dentists, hospitals, clinics and nursing homes. Medical issues involved in his cases have included obstetrics, neonatology, anesthesiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, pathology, psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychological testing and assessment, plastic surgery, epidemiology, internal medicine and family practice, oral surgery and TMJ. Nick enjoys issues involving complicated or unique medical causation. He also represents product manufacturers of medical equipment, motor vehicles, CNC drill press, routers and milling machines, construction equipment, lifting slings, mining equipment, off-road tires, food service industry equipment. Nick chairs Heyl Royster’s Liquor Liability Practice Group, and is recognized among his peers for his knowledge in Illinois Liquor Liability and Dramshop Law.

Listed skills include Civil Litigation, Litigation, Product Liability, Wrongful Death, and 14 others.