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Sloan Program Alumni Webinar: Medical Malpractice, System Failures, and Legal Resolution

Wednesday, May 31, 2017
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST

Please register by May 29, 2017.  Details on how to access the webinar will be sent by email on May 30th.

Medical Malpractice, System Failures, and Legal Resolution
Professional liability defense attorney Rory Eric Jurman, Esq. (College of Human Ecology, Class of 1991) shares his experiences in representing hospitals, health care professionals, and their insurers against medical malpractice claims.  He analyzes the interplay between medical malpractice and system failures that have contributed to large financial exposures.  Case studies are used to educate and familiarize health care administrators and executives to help them address failures, mitigate risk, and eliminate error.     

Rory’s Jurman’s Bio
Rory is an Equity Partner Attorney with the Fowler, White, Burnett law firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  He focuses on providing strategic and cost-effective counsel to Fortune 500 companies, insurers, and self-insureds.  His practice includes insurance coverage, bad faith, professional malpractice, liability, and commercial litigation cases.  

Rory previously practiced in New York and served as counsel to a leading, multinational insurer. He currently leads a team of eight attorneys in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office and has been AV Preeminent Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell for over 10 years.  A frequent national lecturer on risk management, professional malpractice, insurance law and bad faith, Rory is an active member of numerous legal organizations, including the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC), an organization comprised of leaders in the insurance and corporate defense bar. FDCC membership is selective and by invitation to those who have been judged by their peers to have achieved professional distinction.


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