Peter F. Spataro - Lawyer in St. Louis, MO

Peter Spataro primarily concentrates his practice in medical malpracticedefense and risk management for physicians and hospitals in Missouriand Illinois. He has defended and tried malpractice suits for virtuallyevery medical specialty, of which approximately 90% of the trialsresulted in defense verdicts. He is considered one of the lead counselfor The Washington University School of Medicine, one of the top medicalschools and research centers in the United States. He is frequentlyasked to represent the University in its most serious cases and todefend suits brought against its department heads. He defends much ofthe litigation brought against the University's Department ofNeurological Surgery and assists the University in suits involvingresearch issues with its Human Studies Committee.

Mr. Spataro has written articles on the defense of malpractice cases andregularly lectures on risk management and the defense of medicalmalpractice actions at medical and law schools, physicians, riskmanagers and members of the St. Louis Bar. He has defended physiciansand dentists before the Missouri Board of Healing Arts and MissouriDental Board. He has assisted his client physicians with complaintsfiled against opposing expert witness colleagues before nationalspecialty organizations such as the American Association of NeurologicalSurgeons. He was counsel for the Missouri State Medical Associationregarding its stock ownership of the former Missouri Medical InsuranceCompany. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of InterlexInsurance Company, a professional liability insurance company forlawyers.