Miner, Barnhill & Galland represents hospitals and physicians through a broad-ranging practice that covers nearly all aspects of healthcare law. The firm’s clients include large teaching hospitals in Chicago and downstate, smaller community hospitals, a major Chicago safety-net hospital, outpatient clinics and individual physicians.
The firm serves its healthcare clients in a variety of ways. It defends large-scale medical malpractice lawsuits involving most medical specialties, handles litigation involving staff privilege revocation or restrictions, has represented medical schools in student expulsions and discipline, handles hospital clients’ disputes with excess insurers and disputes involving self-insurance programs, consults with healthcare clients on numerous issues of internal governance and government regulation and investigation, defends and advises healthcare clients in employment lawsuits and disputes, has negotiated contracts with hospital executives, counsels hospital clients on relations with practice groups and performs a wide variety of other healthcare matters.