We are pleased to announce Franklin D. Beahm will be a speaker at the American Health Lawyers Association’s Physicians and Hospitals Institute being held in San Antonio, Texas on February 4, 5, and 6, 2019. Mr. Beahm will be co-presenting with Patrick D. Souter. Mr. Beahm’s presentation is entitled, “Navigating the Physician Peer Review Process From the Hospital, Physician and Hearing Officer Perspectives,” for which Mr. Beahm will present from the Hospital and the Hearing Officer perspectives. Mr. Souter will present from the Physician perspective of the Peer Review Process. The American Health Lawyers Association is the premiere health law association and presents the Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute annually. For more information on Mr. Beahm’s presentation please click here.

DRI members Franklin Beahm and Christopher Otten of Beahm & Green in New Orleans, Louisiana successfully defended a hospital liability claim centering on the post-Katrina environment, Hitchens v. Touro Infirmary. The plaintiffs, family members of the decedent-patient claimed the conditions in the hospital caused or exacerbated the decedent-patient’s pre-existing health issues and caused or contributed to her death approximately one month after Hurricane Katrina. The plaintiffs sought damages in the amount of $800,000. The case was tried to the judge, who took the matter under advisement and entered a defense judgment in favor of the hospital with written reasons in January 2019.