Emily W. Newman

For over 20 years, Emily has focused her career on representing hospitals, doctors, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare providers.  Her passion is defending the hands-on care providers who show up and get the work done every.single.day.   Emily has obtained multiple defense verdicts and awards, including a defense verdict for a nursing home in Northern Kentucky against a $53 million trial demand, successfully arbitrating a hospital case obtaining a favorable award, obtaining dismissal of punitive damages during a nursing home trial, and being awarded attorney’s fees after a defense verdict was returned for resident’s rights claims. She has also helped health care providers navigate their defense when complaints have been filed against them in their representative licensure boards. When not in the courtroom, Emily assists her clients with various risk management issues, OIG reportables, investigations and plans of correction, drafting various policies and procedures, and generally trying to ease the headaches that come with the healthcare industry. She also lectures to medical providers on risk management and litigation.