Gordon H. Copland

Representative Experience

• Represented and defended hospitals in antitrust claims brought by physicians under state and federal law
• Successful representation in the certificate of need matters in Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia including acquisitions and sales, construction of new facilities, the addition of services, and opposition to duplicative services
• Regular advice on medical staff issues, including scope of physician rights and the public, quasi-public and private hospital distinctions and HCQIA immunity requirements
• Defended credentialing claims (common law and antitrust) by physicians
• Representation in Medicaid rate setting and disallowance of administrative proceedings for nursing facilities, at administrative and appeal levels
• Advise regarding hospital-related organizations on liability, antitrust and compliance issues
• Represented client in a jury trial on antitrust claims under state antitrust statute and sales below cost statute against a national coal company
• Defended a hospital on claims of antitrust violations (exclusive dealing and tying) arising from the exclusion of CRNA’s as a class
• Acted as local counsel to a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in claims of legal malpractice by mishandling the defense of a case in state and federal antitrust claims
• Represented a hospital in antitrust claims brought by a physician
• Represented a chemical manufacturer in a case brought by an excluded piping contractor against area chemical plants involving numerous Sherman Act and West Virginia antitrust claims
• Represented chemical company in defense of an antitrust case in West Virginia federal court
• Represented numerous clients in antitrust investigations by the West Virginia Attorney General, including coal companies in the statewide investigation of alleged monopoly pricing
• Defended a pharmaceutical company in monopolization and related antitrust claims