Health Care
Gary S. Davis, Esq. has over 43 years of civil trial attorney experience, representing the interests of plaintiffs as well as defendants, with clients ranging from individuals, to self-insured defendants to insurance companies, public entities, and other large corporations. He has spent the last decade serving as a neutral mediator, arbitrator, and/or discovery referee, and has earned a stellar reputation based on his fairness and ability to focus on important issues, while recognizing and respecting the issues of all sides.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
- Extensive experience with managed health care disputes
- Member of California Society of health care Attorneys (CSHA)
- Appointed as neutral arbitrator and/or mediator in hundreds of medical/surgical malpractice claims
- Medical device product liability claims
- Elder abuse claims
Representative Matters
- Managed Health Care Disputes
- Compensation and valuation dispute among members of urology practice
- Disputes between hospitals and physician regarding privileges
- Hospital cases involving conflicts between physicians and nursing staff
- Medical Malpractice
- Cases that involved catastrophic injuries or death; claims include:
- Physical therapist causing severe burns to paralyzed patient
- Vicerated cornea resulting in blindness in eye after cataract surgery
- Failure to diagnose disease including cancer
- Failure to properly medicate and secure psychiatric patient leading to suicide
- Improper surgical procedure by podiatrist
- Birth defect claims
- Lack of consent cases
- Medical Product Liability
- Failure to timely resuscitate blamed on faulty defibrillator
- Failed orthopedic results blamed on faulty medical device
- Health Care Employment
- Health care employment disputes
- Medical employment claims based on gender discrimination and harassment, race discrimination and age discrimination, and failure to accommodate employees with disabilities
- Claims based on retaliation
- Elder Abuse
- Claims against skilled nursing facilities, rehab centers and hospitals with issues of application of micra v enhanced remedies for neglect under Elder Abuse Act
- Claims involving issues of nutrition, hygiene and failure to monitor leading to bed sores
