Ms. Scott Of counsel to BMSA, and an experienced trial lawyer having over 30 years in civil defense practice. She has managed litigation and tried cases throughout Northern Illinois. She has tried catastrophic injury cases involving trucking and automobile cases, construction, premises liability and product liability cases. In the healthcare medical negligence area, she has handled cases involving various specialties for physicians and nurse practitioners, including: internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, infectious disease, obstetrics and gynecology representing physicians, nurse midwives and APNs, hematology and oncology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, vascular surgery and bariatric surgery, anesthesiology representing physicians and CRNAs and pain management physicians, plastic surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, psychiatry, diagnostic radiology as well as interventional radiology and mammography, and urology. Further she has obtained summary judgments for clients on many issues and different areas of the law, including construction, premises liability and product liability and medical negligence cases.
Ms. Scott has been a frequent lecturer to the insurance industry and legal community and physicians in Illinois on topics such as Litigation in Illinois, Risk Management Issues including preventing Medical Misadventures, Medical Negligence Litigation, and Pain Management cases, Illinois Civil Litigation Procedures, premises liability, construction liability and HIPAA Compliance of Business Associates and Covered Entities.
Ms. Scott is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Ms. Scott has also been selected as one of Chicago’s Top Rated Lawyers by the Chicago Tribune. Ms. Scott has been an appointed board member of the Village of Kildeer Planning and Zoning Commission since 2009.
Ms. Scott has been AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell for over 20 years. Ms. Scott also received a 2017 Trial Lawyer Excellence Award from the Jury Verdict Reporter. The award was a Defense Achievement Award in the area of medical negligence.
Education
- University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana – B.A. – 1981
- University of Illinois College of Law – J.D. – 1984
- Who’s Who Among American Law Students – 1984
License
- Admitted to Illinois Bar – 1984
Attorneys
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