Kevin M. Norchi

Counsel, Litigation, Trial and Appeals in the areas of:

Healthcare                       Medical Malpractice       Higher Education            Insurance Defense

Business Litigation         Nursing Home/LTC/Hospice

Hospital Medical Staff Due Process and Hearings

PRACTICE

Kevin Norchi began the practice of law with civil trial experience in Cleveland for two years and then in Cincinnati for six years defending physicians and hospitals in medical negligence lawsuits and pharmaceutical companies in drug product liability matters. Returning to Cleveland in 1994, his healthcare practice broadened to related subjects of peer review, physician privileges and credentialing, and Nursing Home/LTC/ Hospice defense. Kevin developed a succesful practice in Higher Education representing local colleges and universites in various matters including premises liability, and faculty and student disputes. In addition, Kevin has represented clients in business litigation and contract disputes, various general insurance defense matters such as restaurant and food adulteration, and employment, and professional negligence. 

 

Recent matters include:
 

  • Mid-Ohio Emergency Physicians, LLP v. Trinity Hospital Twin City, et al., Tuscarawas C.P. No. 2013 CV 12 0868: Granted summary judgment on post-petition bankruptcy contract litigation. Argued before Court of Appeals (October 2015, reversed February 2016).

  • Rush v. Samaritan Emergency Physician, LLP et al., Ashland C.P. No. 14 CIV 007: Defense verdict for two emergency medicine physicians and a physician's assistant in a wrongful death claim related to EKG interpretation.

  • Groves v. Ihsanullah et al., Cuyahoga C.P. No. CV 14 820538: Defense verdict on behalf of emergency medicine physician in wrongful death claim arising from allegations of methadone overdose.

 

Other representative cases include:

 

  • Wallace v. Case Western Reserve University et al., Cuyahoga C.P. No. 06 CV 591169: Represented CWRU in premises liability, survivorship, and wrongful death actions arising from a college campus shooting and hostage situation. Granted summary judgment, which was affirmed on appeal. Wallace v. Halder, 2009-Ohio-3738.

  • Fletcher v. Univ. Hosps. of Cleveland, 120 Ohio St.3d 167, 2008-Ohio-5379: Argued before the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of University Hospitals of Cleveland regarding the Affidavit of Merit requirement to support professional negligence claims against physicians and other healthcare professionals. 

 

Church Attorney of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio,

November 2012 to the present. 

 

Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and listed in The Plain Dealer "Top Rated Lawyers of 2015."

CONTACT

(216) 514-9500 x222

kmn@norchilaw.com

EDUCATION

Case Western Reserve University School of Law,
   J.D., 1986 

Fordham University, B.A., 1983

 

MEMBERSHIPS & ADVISORY POSITIONS

International Society of Primerus Law Firms

  • Chair, Professional Liability Committee, 2013-2014

 

United Educators Insurers

  • General Liability Advisory Committee, 2009-2014

 

Eighth Judicial District Conference

  • Life Member
     

Loyola Club of Cleveland 

 

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

"Medical Professional Adventures and Primerus
   Solutions", Primerus Defense Institute, Convocation,
   Amelia Island, Florida, April 23-25, 2015.

"Legal Issues for New Family Practitioners", Cleveland

   Clinic, Fairview Hospital, 2012-2014. 
 

ADMISSIONS

Ohio

Pennsylvania (inactive)

Supreme Court of the United States of America

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio