Preventative Legal Care

Kevin W. Yankowsky

May 2015 · Best Publishing

About this ebook

This easy to read book provides practical, real-world solutions to effectively manage and diminish your medical-legal risks. As a practicing healthcare attorney, Kevin W. Yankowsky has represented individual clinicians and healthcare institutions involved in legal disputes of all shapes and sizes. In his over 20 years as a practicing attorney, he has seen providers and institutions pour money into resolving legal disputes that potentially could have been avoided. Institutions focus too much of their time, effort, and financial resources on the costs of litigation defense and the expenses of settlement rather than investing time and resources on medical-legal prevention. In Preventative Legal Care: A Practitioner’s Guide to Medical-Legal Fitness, Yankowsky outlines some medical-legal risk factors unassociated with clinical care and supplies practical real-world solutions to recognize, control and minimize, if not eliminate, those factors.

About the author

Kevin W. Yankowsky is a partner in the Life Sciences Pharmaceutical and Health Litigation Practice Group of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP. Kevin has served as lead counsel for healthcare industry defendants in over 30 jury trials and 12 appeals in both state and federal court, the majority of which involved claimed damages at trial in excess of $1 million. Kevin’s trial practice encompasses virtually all types of civil litigation facing the healthcare industry. He serves as lead counsel in professional liability claims, complex commercial suits, products liability matters, ERISA actions, premises liability suits and EMTALA litigation and regulatory investigations. In addition to his extensive courtroom experience, Kevin advises clients on Joint Commission investigations, patient privacy, data retention and security issues, and hospital committee and medical peer review matters. Kevin also serves as a frequent consultant on legal, litigation, document retention, electronic data management, and enterprise risk issues for health industry clients. Kevin’s established reputation as both an accomplished trial lawyer and risk management consultant have also made him a frequently featured speaker at national healthcare industry conferences and professional symposiums across the country.