McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy is a recognized
leader in the defense of a wide array of medical malpractice claims.
Its lawyers have represented physicians, medical groups, hospitals,
emergency room physicians, nursing homes, physical therapists,
registered nurses, and physician’s assistants.
The firm is well experienced in the medical field
and has a broad base of medical technology and medical information
at its fingertips. With MedLine and all national and international
medical journals available through research on line, the firm
has excellent research capabilities.
Throughout the years of representing medical
clients the firm has developed extensive resources in the way
of medical experts to assist in the evaluation of cases.
The attorneys of McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy
are Southern California’s premier specialists in defending
matters of general liability. The firm represents numerous insurance
interests and self-insured entities in litigation dealing with
liability, product defect, bad faith, primary insurance, excess
insurance and professional malpractice and liability.
The firm complements its traditional expertise
in these matters with an aggressive, but thoughtful approach to
the new challenges facing the insurance industry. In addition
to legal representation, the firm also provides coverage opinions
and advises clients about the risks of loss in specific situations.
Some of the firm’s general liability clients
include Progressive Insurance, Republic Services, Inc., Markel
American Insurance, and The Automobile Club of Southern California.
A large portion of McNeil, Tropp, Braun &
Kennedy’s practice involves premises liability defense.
It has defended a wide variety of clients on issues ranging from
the simple to the complex. Clients include insurers, municipalities
and corporations.
Among the firm’s premises liability clients
are The Vons Companies, Inc., Consolidated Stores Corporation
and Fox Studios.
 The
firm has represented medical groups (IPA’s) and physicians
in managed care cases. It has handled cases alleging the bad faith
wrongful denial of medical benefits as well as allegations of
delayed medical benefits. The firm has also successfully defended
matters alleging HMO financial incentive bad faith. Its lawyers
have experience in evaluating a medical group, or a hospital’s
utilization review process as well as its quality assurance program.
The firm’s lawyers have lectured on these issues in order
to insure proper medical/UR and QA charting to better defend against
managed care cases.
The firm keeps current on this ever changing
area of the law by receiving daily court updates on line as well
as utilizing various research programs to keep up with the managed
care cases currently on appeal. It has successfully argued demurrers
on Medicare grounds and has reduced the amount of intentional
torts and punitive contract allegations against their clients.
McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy has successfully
defended a wide variety of professional malpractice cases brought
against clients in numerous professions. Within this area of practice
the firm has defended doctors, engineers, nurses, architects,
contractors, and insurance brokers.
McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy forms business
entities for its clients including corporations, limited liability
companies, limited partnerships, and partnerships, both foreign
and domestic, for profit and not for profit. These services also
include dissolutions, reorganizations, documents related to the
sale and acquisition of businesses, and entity maintenance.
Our firm works closely with its clients on business
and commercial transactions by drafting and reviewing agreements
of all types including distribution, confidentiality, non-circumvention,
and employment agreements. We provide ongoing services to regular
clients in order to help in all of their legal needs.
McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy represents
clients with real estate transactions, ranging from leasing matters
involving landlord and tenant issues, including drafting, reviewing,
and enforcing residential and commercial leases, to matters related
to the acquisition and sale of real property, and the preparation
and review of real estate and real estate finance documents and
documents.
 Our
litigators have extensive experience in business litigation, including
jury and non-jury trials in Federal and state courts, arbitrations,
mediations, and appeals. We have represented clients in litigation
involving entities with internal disputes among owners, employees,
third-party disputes, breach of contract, business torts (such
as unfair competition and interference with contract), and shareholder
and director liability.
McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy represent
clients in real estate litigation including matters related to
the purchase and sale of real property, toxic clean-up litigation,
and lawsuits involving tenants and landlords.
Lawyers in our firm represent clients in all
forms of commercial litigation involving enforcement of notes
and other commercial obligations, both secured and unsecured,
as well as issues involving the purchase and sale of goods.
Our firm prepares customized estate plans, including
the preparation of wills, living trusts, durable powers of attorney,
advance health care directives, family partnerships, limited liability
companies, and insurance planning.
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