Stephanie is a senior associate in Lander & Rogers' national Health group in Sydney. She is a skilled defendant insurance lawyer specialising in the defence of medical negligence claims.
Stephanie acts on behalf of private hospitals, health practitioners and various allied health professionals in both litigated and unlitigated claims. She also advises health and allied health clients in relation to Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) complaints, coronial investigations, compliance and risk management, as well as with respect to professional conduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings. Stephanie also has experience representing the interests of doctors, hospitals, and local health districts in coronial inquests.
Stephanie is committed to providing high-quality, cost-effective legal services to her clients with a particular focus on early resolution and excellent outcomes.
Experience
Stephanie has experience in:
- specific to allied health, acting for nurses and midwives, radiology practices and radiologists, physiotherapists, dentists and dental practices, aged care service providers with respect to medical negligence claims, coronial inquests, HCCC complaints and disciplinary proceedings
- acting for and advising small and large health and allied health organisations in the defence of claims for medical negligence
- acting for and advising medical practitioners and other health care professionals in the defence of claims for professional negligence, disciplinary proceedings and coronial inquests
- appearing in and advising on coronial inquiries into patient deaths.
- Stephanie is a member of the Law Society of NSW and the Medico-Legal Society of NSW.
Career highlights
Stephanie has acted:
- for an orthopaedic surgeon in various Supreme Court of NSW proceedings in relation to whether the spinal surgeries performed were reasonable, necessary, clinically indicated and/or performed with due care and skill
- for an integrative general practitioner in Supreme Court of NSW proceedings for allegedly inappropriately managing a patient's Crohn’s disease, for the prolonged and inappropriate prescription of steroids causing development of osteoporosis, fractures, pubertal delay, growth failure, ongoing symptomatic inflammatory bowel disease and the need for operative intervention. Damages claimed were in excess of $4 million
- on behalf of two obstetricians and gynaecologists in Supreme Court of NSW proceedings commenced by a patient claiming damages arising from the insertion of an IVS sling (for treatment of her urinary stress incontinence), who was also a group member of the TFS/IVS class action
- on behalf of a local health district in relation to a nervous shock claim commenced by the mother, arising from the single intrauterine death in a twin pregnancy
- on behalf of a local health district in relation to a coronial investigation into the sudden death of patient who underwent an elective repair of his right fractured humerus
- on behalf of an orthopaedic surgeon in relation to various HCCC complaints and supporting him through a s 150 hearing at the Medical Council of NSW.