In March 2022, Sturgill Turner’s Medical Malpractice Defense Team defended a medical negligence lawsuit against a pulmonologist alleging failure to diagnose lung cancer. The plaintiff’s estate sought $800,000 in damages for pain and suffering and funeral expenses.

After a difficult and emotional 3-day trial, the jury found in favor of the defendant. Congratulations and well done to Pat Moloney, Andrew DeSimone, Jess Villagaray, DonAnn Osborne and the rest of the Medical Malpractice Defense team!

An experienced and successful healthcare and med mal defense attorney, Andrew DeSimone is AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® and has been named to U.S. News Best Lawyers in America®: Health Care Litigation, and Kentucky Super Lawyers®: Medical Malpractice Defense, General Personal Injury Defense. Andrew has served on the board of the Fayette County Bar Foundation for the past several years, as well as on the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Publications Committee, and was 2021 and 2022 chair of DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Seminar.

A trial lawyer for more than four decades, Pat Moloney’s practice focuses on the defense of hospitals, health care providers and nursing homes, and mediation services. He has tried many medical malpractice cases to jury verdict and defended numerous personal injury cases over the course of his legal career. He was named Lexington’s 2015 Medical Malpractice Defense “Lawyer of the Year” and 2016 Personal Injury Defense “Lawyer of the Year” by U.S. News−and the Best Lawyers in America®. Pat is a Fellow and former Kentucky State Chair of The American College of Trial Lawyers.