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
