Legal Services for Your Professional Liability Needs
At Monaco Cooper Lamme & Carr, PLLC, we recognize that liability claims threaten a great deal more than financial loss to a professional. Your hard-earned reputation, business, and livelihood are at risk and sleepless nights result. Our clients trust us to defend them. We deliver with a talented team of attorneys with a consistent record of success in protecting our clients through the complex, and often emotional, process that accompanies liability claims. We are your advocates from beginning to end. Our goal is simple: protect your reputation, business, and livelihood.
Accomplished Professional Liability Attorneys
Our accomplished team of attorneys understand the unique challenges presented when professionals and organizations are involved in at-risk litigation. With our decades of experience, our attorneys have gained a preeminent reputation for excellence in malpractice defense and professional liability law.
We are exceedingly qualified to handle the sensitive issues involved in professional liability claims, working closely with our clients from the time you are served to aggressively defend your interests throughout discovery and depositions, motion and appellate practice, and resolution whether by dismissal, mediation, settlement, or trial.
Our Professional Liability Clients
- Accountants
- Architects
- Assisted and Adult Living Facilities
- Attorneys
- Banks and Financial Service Institutions
- Chiropractors
- Dentists and Dental Professionals
- Directors and Officers
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Engineers
- Financial Planners
- Hospitals
- Insurance Professionals
- Laboratory Technicians
- Land Surveyors
- Nurses and Licensed Nurse Practitioners
- Nursing Homes
- Nurses and Nursing Professionals
- Orthodontists
- Pharmacists
- Physical and Occupational Therapists
- Physicians and Physicians’ Assistants
- Professional Medical Corporations
- Psychologists and Other Mental Health Professionals
- Social Workers
- Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
Professional Licensing & Discipline
At Monaco Cooper Lamme & Carr, PLLC, we recognize that nothing is more critical to a professional’s career than his or her license to practice. We are acutely aware that the number of complaints against professionals has risen sharply due, in part, to the requirement that licensing bodies review every complaint received regardless of the source or merit. We are your advocates from the early stages through our rigorous representation before investigating committees. Our goal is simple: protect your license, reputation, business, and livelihood.
Whether a complaint is justified, unjustified, frivolous or malicious, all licensing matters handled at Monaco Cooper Lamme & Carr, PLLC are taken seriously from start to finish. Our attorneys represent you through a host of professional misconduct matters, including allegations of:
- Engaging in acts of gross incompetence or gross negligence on a single occasion, or negligence or incompetence on more than one occasion
- Permitting or aiding an unlicensed person to perform activities that require a license
- Refusing a client or patient service because of race, creed, color, or national origin
- Practicing beyond the scope of the profession
- Releasing confidential information without authorization
- Being convicted of a crime
- Failing to return or provide copies of records on request
- Being sexually or physically abusive
- Abandoning or neglecting a patient in need of immediate care
- Performing unnecessary work or unauthorized services
- Practicing under the influence of alcohol or other drugs
- Engaging in dishonest or illegal billing practices, including Medicaid and Medicare issues
We have extensive experience representing professionals before licensing committees, including but not limited to:
- The Office of Professional Misconduct (OPMC)
- The Office of Professional Discipline (OPD)
- The Office of the Attorney General
- The Office of Inspector General (OIG)
- Governmental agencies for Medicare and Medicaid
- Hospital committees
- Peer review boards
- Health insurance panels