Fighting for Their Clients in the Medical Community
Boyle Brasher LLC has a dedicated group of trial attorneys and legal assistants who concentrate their practices in defending medical malpractice lawsuits. The firm has been handling medical malpractice cases since they first began to be filed. Our attorneys represent physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, osteopaths, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, physical therapists, medical clinics, diagnostic laboratories, other healing arts professionals, ambulance companies and all other health care providers.
Approximately 70 percent of all medical malpractice cases in the jurisdictions in which Boyle Brasher LLC practices are either won by jury verdict or dismissed prior to trial. In order to prevail, plaintiffs must prove through expert testimony that the physician, hospital or other medical provider has deviated from accepted medical standards of care. Most often the firm's attorneys and staff are already familiar with the medical issues involved in a malpractice lawsuit and can readily contact the most qualified experts either locally or nationally as required by each individual case. Through Boyle Brasher LLC's experience and consultation with these expert witnesses the firm is able to identify the medical issues upon which the case can be successfully defended.
Broad Range of Medical Malpractice Allegations
Boyle Brasher LLC attorneys have defended cases alleging all types of medical malpractice:
Meningitis cases involving:
- Brain damage
Birth defect cases involving:
- Cerebral palsy
- Placental abruption
- Other congenital anomalies
Failure to diagnose and treat cases involving:
- Coronary heart disease
- Myocardial infarct
- Aortic aneurysm
- Myocarditis
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Aortic dissection
- Pulmonary embolism
- Cancer
- C-difficile
- Community acquired pneumonia
- Sepsis and septic shock
- Aplastic anemia-slipped epiphysis
Surgical complication cases including:
- Injury to common bile duct during gallbladder surgery
- Unsuccessful tubal ligation
- Paralysis of facial nerves and other nerve injuries
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Undesirable outcomes in orthopedic and other surgical procedures
High Stakes Cases
Although the stakes are often high in a medical malpractice case, it has been our medical malpractice attorneys' experience that when a case is properly prepared and presented with credible testimony from highly qualified experts, a medical malpractice case can be won with a jury regardless of the jurisdiction in which the case is tried.
Boyle Brasher LLC attorneys defend medical malpractice cases throughout Central and Southern Illinois, including St. Clair County and Madison County, as well as Eastern and Southern Missouri, including the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and surrounding counties.
Nationally Recognized
Boyle Brasher LLC attorneys are nationally recognized. The firm is AV rated* by Martindale-Hubbell. Our lawyers include fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America. Members of the firm are listed in The Best Lawyers in America and as Super Lawyers. Our attorneys have been published in respected legal journals and periodicals. Firm members have been recognized by the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers. Boyle Brasher LLC has also been designated a Go-To Law Firm by The American Lawyer. The firm is dedicated to maintaining cutting edge excellence in its areas of practice. To achieve that goal, members of the firm are active participants in defense litigation organizations including the Federation of Insurance and Corporation Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC). Two members of the firm are past presidents of the NARTC.
Contact Us
Learn how Boyle Brasher LLC can meet your needs. Contact the firm or any of its attorneys by phone or e-mail to schedule an appointment or a review of your legal needs.
In St. Louis, Missouri, call us at 314-621-7700 or email us at contactstlouis@boylebrasher.com
In Belleville, Illinois, call us at 618-277-9000 or email us at contactbelleville@boylebrasher.com
In Memphis, Tennessee, call us at 901-521-2860 or email us at contactmemphis@boylebrasher.com
Boyle Brasher LLC is also available to serve as local counsel for clients and their attorneys.
* AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general standards.
