Attorney
CurrentConcentrates his practice in health law and general civil litigationSelected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in AmericaMartindale Hubbell AV ("preeminent") ratedSince 1986, has represented the Pennsylvania Medical Society and other health care associations as an amicus curiae or as a plaintiff in numerous significant health care policy cases in Pennsylvania and federal courts. The cases have successfully invalidated state rules limiting physician reimbursement and improperly restricting the practice of medicine, prevented the expansion of professional tort liability on health care providers, defended provisions of Pennsylvania’s tort reform legislation, and established legal principles important to physicians and their patients; Outside general counsel to Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists. Works at the administrative, trial and appellate levels, in both state and federal court, on health care, general commercial, environmental, congressional reapportionment, environmental law and defamation and liquor law matters.Noteworthy Court Decisions include: •Malt Beverage Distributor’s Association v. PLCB, 974 A.2d 1144(Pa. 2009)•Association of Settlement Companies v. Comm., Dept. of Banking, A.2d (Pa. Commw. 2009)•Gbur v. Golio, 963 A.2d 443 (Pa. 2009) •Wexler v. Hecht, 928 A.2d 983 (Pa. 2007)•Fitzpatrick v. Natter, 961 A.2d 1229 (Pa. 2008•Schappell v. Motorists Mutual Insurance Company, 934 A.2d 1184 (Pa. 2007): •Womer v. Hilliker, 908 A.2d 269 (Pa. 2006): •Penna. Medical Society v. Snider, 29 F.3d 886 (3d Cir. 1994), •Southard v. Temple University Hospital, 781 A.2d 101 (Pa.2001): •Althaus v. Cohen, 756 A.2d 1166 (Pa.2000)•In Re: Daniel Joseph Fiori, 673 A.2d 905 (Pa.1996): •Vieth v. Commonwealth of Pa., 541 U.S. 267 (2004): .
