Ellen E. Herzog

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Cases: Ellen Herzog h
  les complex commercial
  torts cases, including class
  mass actions
  medical malpractice defense. She has appeared in six trials
  gained significant experience examining fact
  expert witnesses, including in matters involving criminal allegations.
  Representing a New Mexico hospital in 12 cases involving criminal conduct allegations against a psychiatrist.
  Conducted an internal investigation of a hospital employee accused sexually assaulting a patient in the recovery room following surgery.
  Representing a psychiatric facility in Georgia in a wrongful death case involving a patient who murdered two family members after being discharged.
  Serve as monitoring counsel to an insurance company in nine cases in California involving claims of sexual abuse against a physician.
  Defending an Oregon clinic
  multiple healthcare providers against claims of sexual assault alleged to have occurred during an out-patient procedure.
  Won a unanimous defense verdict in a $55 million trial in eastern Kentucky for a hospital accused of malpractice.
  Won a complete defense jury verdict for a mental health hospital in Virginia. The plaintiff claimed $32 million in damages arising from an alleged patient-on-patient sexual assault.
  Won a complete defense jury verdict in California for an emergency room doctor in a medical malpractice lawsuit with over $22 million at stake in damages claims. WTO was called in just 10 days prior to the three-week trial.
  Represented a global healthcare company in multidistrict litigation involving over 12,000 claims relating to dialysis products.
  Brown v. Whirlpool (N.D. Ohio 2014) - Obtained dismissal of class action allegations
  15 of 17 claims against Whirlpool in an environmental toxic tort case. Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their remaining claims after the court's ruling.