Joseph Anthony Farchione, Jr.

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

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

  Representative Cases: Joseph Farchione has trial experience in the defense of healthcare professionals, hospitals,
  their insurers in high-exposure medical malpractice cases, especially in the area of birth trauma. He has tried more than 100 cases to verdict across the country
  serves as national SWAT counsel for numerous insurers
  healthcare clients.
  Won a defense verdict in Philadelphia for a hospital
  its physician assistant who diagnosed muscle strain when in fact the plaintiff had an infection that resulted in the amputation of her leg. The jury agreed with WTO's arguments that, given the circumstances, the original diagnosis was reasonable.
  Won a defense jury verdict in Ohio for two neonatologists facing claims of negligently h
  ling the care of a newborn baby.
  Won a defense jury verdict in Ohio for an obstetrician facing claims of medical negligence
  lack of informed consent,
  damages claims in excess of $15 million, arising from a stroke suffered by a newborn following a difficult delivery. The obstetrician passed away tragically
  unexpectedly before trial, making the defense of the care problematic.
  Won a complete defense jury verdict in a $31 million medical malpractice lawsuit in Illinois involving a newborn who contracted meningitis.
  Won a complete defense jury verdict in Ohio in a two-week trial involving allegations of medical malpractice resulting in birth injuries. The plaintiffs sought over $18 million in damages,
  WTO lawyers were brought in to defend the case just three weeks before trial in Ohio.
  Won a complete defense jury verdict in Columbus, Ohio, in a medical malpractice case involving paraplegia allegedly resulting from failure to timely diagnose a spinal epidural abscess.
  Won a complete defense verdict in state court in Minnesota in a case involving allegations that a doctor's spinal epidural injection resulted in paraplegia. Prior to trial, the plaintiffs rejected a $4 million offer of judgment. Following two weeks of testimony, the jury deliberated 11 hours over two days, returning with a unanimous defense verdict.
  Obtained voluntary dismissal of all claims alleging that our client's hospice bed started a fire that killed a palliative care patient
  caused his widow to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder.
  Won a unanimous defense verdict for four psychiatric hospital nurses in a two-week medical malpractice trial in Boston involving the tragic death of a child. Despite the fact that one nurse admitted negligence for herself
  implicated the other three, WTO lawyers effectively argued that the nurse's negligence did not cause the patient's death
  that the other nurses acted appropriately within the scope of their responsibilities.
  Obtained a favorable outcome in a Florida medical malpractice trial involving the death of a 43-year-old man following out-patient hernia surgery. Brought in just a week before trial, the WTO team effectively argued for our client in court, leading the jury to assign primary liability to the patient's family
  a non-party surgeon, not to WTO's client. The resulting jury award was less than what our client had offered during trial to settle the case.
  Obtained a favorable settlement for a large excess insurance company in a medical malpractice case involving a permanent disability to a young child resulting from surgery conducted by a doctor who was not board certified.