Thomas O Anderson
Hospital & Medical Malpractice
The attorneys in the Medical Professional Liability Practice Group have handled some of the most significant cases brought against medical professionals. With a wide range of experience representing hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers for over thirty years, Morrison Mahoney LLP has a practice group of over twenty attorneys devoted to the successful defense of medical malpractice claims. Our professional staff includes pharmacists, registered nurses and physical therapists.
Our well-known success in litigation has been earned with hundreds of verdicts on behalf of our clients. We have proudly defended a wide variety of healthcare professionals and healthcare systems including: physicians; nurses; hospitals; nursing homes; health maintenance organizations; risk managers; pharmacists; physical therapists; chiropractors; optometrists and ophthalmologists; physician’s assistants; nurse practitioners; nurse midwives; dentists; orthodontists; mental health professionals; as well as a wide-array of other providers and medical institutions.
In addition to the respect it engenders among judges and other attorneys, the firm’s reputation for talented lawyers with a depth of experience has been recognized by community hospitals and academic medical centers including, among many, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston); Children’s Hospital of Boston; University of Massachusetts Medical Center; The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts – Memorial; and Baystate Medical Center. We have also assisted medical centers in regulatory matters and in handling issues in the areas of healthcare law, employment law, directors’ and officers’ liability, ERISA, mergers and acquisitions, and workers’ compensation.
Morrison Mahoney LLP's Medical Professional Liability Practice Group has also provided business consulting and advice to various medical institutions. We have helped these medical institutions develop, review, and update proper practice protocols and internal hospital regulations, create business plans for various departments within these institutions, and provide consultation regarding employment issues. Our capabilities include: employee handbook evaluation and drafting, company policy development and implementation, employee sensitivity training, sexual harassment policy training, and employee evaluation program review and management. We are also skilled in helping our clients handle the entire litigation process from counseling and preparation through trial and the appeal process.
Regulatory, Licensure & Credentialing Matters
Our attorneys are also experienced at representing clients in front of the Boards of Registration regarding a range of disciplinary matters. We have helped physicians, nurses, risk managers, and other medical professionals through the credentialing process and the defense of complaints before the Board of Registration. In addition, our firm has represented clients in matters involving third-party payors, including issues of credentialing and audits of patients’ files.
Insurance & Risk Management Related Services
Our attorneys have extensive experience representing insurers, reinsurers and self-insured healthcare institutions on a variety of insurance, risk management, quality assurance, and claims handling matters. Our services include conducting pre-underwriting and periodic claims reviews, advising on the sufficiency of reserves, tracking aggregate impairment and confirming aggregate exhaustion, monitoring of excess claims, issuing coverage opinions, and drafting and reviewing risk management, quality assurance, and claims handling policy and procedure protocols. We have also developed complex claim database programs to assist our clients in the tracking and monitoring of routine claims, as well as complex mass tort litigation.
Thomas O Anderson
Morrison Mahoney LLP
1 Constitution Plaza - 10th floor
Hartford CT 06103
Tel: 860 616-4441
Fax: 860 244-3800
E-mail: tanderson@morrisonmahoney.com
Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer - National Board of Legal Specialty Certification
Practice Areas:
Hospital & Medical Malpractice, Professional Liability, Tort & Liability Defense
Thomas Anderson is a Partner in the Hartford Office of Morrison Mahoney LLP. Since joining the firm, his practice has focused on the defense of medical malpractice, professional liability, and other complex insurance defense litigation. Before joining Morrison Mahoney, Mr. Anderson was a Partner at Danaher, Lagnese & Neal, P.C.
Mr. Anderson has represented numerous physicians, nurses, and other professionals in malpractice actions throughout the State of Connecticut. He has extensive trial experience in the defense of professional liability actions, including successfully trying wrongful death, medical,and other professional liablity cases to verdict throughout the State of Connecticut. He also counsels clients regarding various risk management issues.
Mr. Anderson is admitted to practice in Connecticut (1988) and in Massachusetts (1985). He is also admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1988). Mr. Anderson is Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board Of Trial Advocacy and has earned Martindale and Hubbell's highest rating of "AV" by his peers.
Mr. Anderson has also been a frequent lecturer on various litigation, trial practice, and malpractice topics, including "Taking Your First Deposition," "The Basics of Civil Trial Practice in Connecticut," "Nursing Home Malpractice," "Federal Medicare's Super Lien," "CMIC's New Physician's Practice-Legal Perspective," and "Shoulder Dystocia Litigation."
Mr. Anderson is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A. in 1981) and the University of Tulsa College of Law (J.D. in 1984).
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