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Reed is a partner at Starnes Davis Florie and has served on various firm committees. He is chair of the firm’s long term care practice group.
Reed’s practice is devoted to civil litigation with a special emphasis representing healthcare providers in litigation and regulatory matters. His litigation experience includes professional medical liability, long term care/nursing home liability, pharmaceutical and medical device liability, product liability, and general personal injury, wrongful death and insurance litigation (including defense of direct claims against insurance companies for breach of contract, bad faith, and fraud). Reed has arbitrated and tried numerous complex jury and non-jury cases to a verdict.
•Obtained a defense verdict in favor of a nursing home in a wrongful death case arising from allegations that a patient died from gastrointestinal bleeding, infection, and hemorrhage at a dialysis access site.
•Obtained a defense verdict in favor of an assisted living facility and the facility’s executive director in a six-day arbitration hearing involving a resident’s allegations of sexual assault.
•Obtained defense verdict for nursing home in four day arbitration involving claims by plaintiff for personal injury and wrongful death.
•Secured reversal by Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals of Order dismissing 9 U.S.C.4 Complaint to Compel Arbitration for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in nursing home case.
•Successfully compelled malpractice claims against nursing home in Arkansas into arbitration.
•Obtained defense verdict on behalf of emergency department physician in seven-day wrongful death trial.
•Obtained dismissal of cardiologist in wrongful death case.
•Obtained jury verdict for emergency department physician in ten-day wrongful death case.
•Currently representing numerous nursing homes and long term care facilities throughout the State of Alabama in personal injury and wrongful death cases.
•Obtained dismissal of class action against nursing home operator and insurance company arising from alleged violations of Medicare Secondary Payor Act.
•Risk Management - Resident Care & Employment Issues, Health Care Leadership Conference, Orange Beach, AL, October 18, 2018.
•Sexual Assault in Long-Term Care: Evaluating and Defending these Claims, Alabama Nursing Home Defense Lawyers Association, Orange Beach, AL, April 24, 2018.
•Mega Rule Staffing Requirements - Are you Ready,? Alabama Nursing Home Association, Birmingham, AL, October 23, 2017.
•Arbitration Best Practices, Alabama Nursing Home Defense Lawyers Meeting, Orange Beach, AL, April 26, 2014.
•Criminal Acts by Employees, Alabama Nursing Home Defense Lawyers Meeting, Orange Beach, AL, April 26, 2014.
•Trends in Nursing Home Litigation - Avoiding the Multi-Million Dollar Mistake, Senior Care Pharmacy Conference, Birmingham, AL, April 10, 2014.
•Is This Just Another One of Those Nursing Homes?, Alabama Nursing Home Association Meeting, Birmingham, AL, February 3, 2014.
•“Whoa to the Company that Fails to Include a Class Wide Arbitration Waiver,” IADC Medical Defense and Health Law Committee Newsletter, January 31, 2014.
•Open Floor Discussion: Are You Producing More Than Your Peers? Pushing Back On A Request for Production, American Conference Institute’s Seminar on “Preventing and Defending Long Term Care Litigation,” Miami, FL, January 28, 2014.
•“Are You As Guilty As The Criminal? Liability For Criminal Acts Of Third Parties And Employees,” Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Quarterly Publication, FDCC Quarterly (Fall 2013).
•Reed R. Bates and Stephen W. Still, Jr., “Arbitration in Nursing Home Cases: Trends, Issues and a Glance into the Future”, IADC Defense Counsel Journal, Vol. 76, No. 3, Pages 282-299 (July 2009) Please Note: this article was reprinted with the permission of the IADC Defense Counsel Journal.
•Reed is actively involved in his church and outreach ministries.
•He has enjoyed coaching youth sports and serving in leadership roles for youth focused organizations.
•He supports and is actively involved in several civic and charitable organizations.
Reported Cases; GGNSC Montgomery, LLC d/b/a Golden LivingCenter-Montgomery v. Karen F. Norris, Administratrix of the Estate of Leila Jackson Scott, deceased - 2013 WL 627114 (M.D. Ala. Feb. 20, 2013); Aurora Healthcare, Inc. v. Ramsey, 83 So. 3d 495 (Ala. 2011); Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, et al. v. Wayne Rutherford, - - F.3d - -, 2010 WL 1929777 (8th Cir. May 14, 2010). Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, et al. v. Wayne Rutherford, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Isaac Mitchell Rutherford (W.D. Ark. Mar. 17, 2009). Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC d/b/a Springdale Health and Rehab. Center, et al. v. Tresa Robinson, as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Donna Faye Snow, deceased, et al., 2009 WL 140983 (W.D. Ark. Jan. 12, 2009). Vulcan Materials Company v. Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association, et al., Slip Opinion, 2007 WL 2216896 (Ala. Aug. 3, 2007) (No. 1060506). Zaden v. Elkus, 881 So. 2d 993 (Ala. 2003). McGuffey Health & Health Rehabilitation Center v. Gibson, 864 So. 2d 1061 (Ala. 2003). Marsh v. Wenzel, 732 So. 2d 985 (Ala. 1998).

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