Stephen E. Oertle

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

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

  Representative Cases: Stephen Oertle defends sophisticated clients in high-stakes medical malpractice
  product liability lawsuits nationwide. His practice includes the defense of mass torts
  multidistrict litigation.
  Represent the corporate parent of over 50 hospitals, as well as individual hospitals, in cases involving medical negligence, wrongful termination,
  unfair trade practices actions, often where extended life care plans or the possibility of punitive damages lead to high-exposure cases.
  Represent multiple automobile manufacturers
  suppliers in product liability actions involving catastrophic injury
  wrongful death claims.
  Defended a major motorcoach manufacturer in multiple-fatality rollover crash litigation involving extensive document production.
  Represented a major pharmaceutical company in multiple nationwide product liability cases, including cases involving allegations that various medications caused suicidality, breast cancer,
  birth defects.
  Won summary judgment on all claims in a federal civil rights case involving allegations against a rural hospital that a deaf patient had been forcibly restrained
  denied a sign language interpreter. After rem
  to state court, WTO achieved a nuisance value settlement.
  Defended an international fast food company in a premises liability case involving allegations that poor training
  supervision of employees
  poor security resulted in the aggravated battery of a term pregnant woman, resulting in neurological injuries to her fetus. Despite a dem
  of $7.5 million a month before trial, WTO settled the case extremely favorably on the morning of jury selection.