Across the country, medical negligence litigation has drifted far from a system grounded in fair compensation. Today’s cases are increasingly shaped by aberration verdicts, narrative-driven trial tactics, and the growing influence of third-party litigation funding. Plaintiff firms are deploying sophisticated psychological strategies, venue manipulation, and inflated damages models while hospitals, physicians, insurers, and health systems absorb rising exposure and operational strain.
The Healthcare Defense Summit was built specifically to confront these challenges.
Produced in cooperation with American Legal Connections, this 1.5-day healthcare-focused program brings together the nation’s leading healthcare defense attorneys, claims professionals, insurers, and risk executives to examine what it will take to defend medical cases effectively now and in the future.
- Summit sessions will address the most urgent issues facing healthcare defense today, including: Why aggressively defending damages is critical and how conceding the damages narrative accelerates aberration verdicts.
- Countering modern plaintiff strategies, including emotional framing, Reptile Theory, venue manipulation, and exaggerated future-damages projections
- Scrutinizing life care plans with medical realism and exposing inflated assumptions
- Advanced mediation and negotiation strategies for healthcare claims
- Developing fact-driven, medically accurate narratives that resonate with jurors
- Strengthening collaboration across counsel, carriers, providers, and institutional leadership to avoid siloed decisions
Through interactive workshops, scenario-based learning, healthcare-specific case studies, and expert-guided discussion, the ALC Defense Summit equips attendees with the next generation of defense strategies needed to stabilize an increasingly volatile medical liability environment.
The message is clear: if the healthcare defense community does not evolve—and push back—the imbalance will continue.
The Healthcare Defense Summit is where that evolution begins.
📍 March 3–4, 2026
📍 Emory Conference Center | Atlanta, Georgia
Stand with national leaders in healthcare defense.
Sharpen strategy. Build alliances.
Protect the future of healthcare litigation.
Register at https://healthcaredefensesummit.com
