Stites & Harbison defends difficult lawsuits. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the convergence of medical malpractice defense and pharmaceutical/medical device litigation.

The firm represents pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. A sampling of pharmaceutical litigation includes tetracycline, oral polio vaccines, anesthetics, DES and various contraceptives such as the Cu-7 and the Dalkon Shield. Representative medical devices defended by the firm include tampons, surgical clips and instruments, intraocular lenses, prosthetic devices, cardiac defibrillators, ventilators, catheters and kidney lithotripters.

Stites & Harbison has a long-standing relationship with a number of medical malpractice insurance companies, including Kentucky's largest. The firm's attorneys try to verdict over a dozen major medical malpractice claims every year. Stites & Harbison also has close ties with individual physicians and organized medicine. The firm represents state and county medical organizations, major clinics and hospital staff groups.

The firm's trial practice is not limited to Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Indiana. Stites & Harbison's lawyers have regional and national practices in serial litigation, both as principal trial counsel and as coordinating counsel charged with managing discovery, recruiting expert witnesses and supervising document production.

More than 20 attorneys with the firm, including members of this service group, have technical backgrounds, including several engineering disciplines and all of the natural sciences.