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MALPRACTICE DEFENSE SERVICES has been providing legal assistance to physicians since our founding in 2004. It is our mission to permanently reduce the number of malpractice lawsuits, premiums, judgments and settlements. We believe the best way to achieve this goal is via the active monitoring of, and aggressive intervention and participation in, malpractice litigation.
Executive Staff:
MDS’ President & CEO, Todd B. Nurick, Esq., grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. Todd received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Logistics from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the Widener (Delaware) University School of Law. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Montgomery County Bar Association and an active member of the Business, Banking and Corporation Division of the Bar.
A practicing attorney for ten years, Todd comes from a long line of attorneys seeking justice and pursuing integrity in all aspects of their practices. His grandfather, Gilbert Nurick, co-founder of the prestigious firm of McNees, Wallace and Nurick, helped found the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board and was President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Continuing the tradition of enforcing and ensuring the ethical behavior of attorneys, Todd was appointed to, and served on, the Code of Conduct Committee overseeing the behavior of law students at Widener.
In addition to being active in community volunteer work, Todd has worked for various prosecutors’ offices and has served his community in a law enforcement capacity. Additionally, Todd has served as Chief Counsel and Counsel to not only billion-dollar, international corporations, but also local “Mom and Pop” operations. During his ten-year practice, Todd has represented medical practitioners in every aspect of their practices, from contract negotiation and practice entity formation, to selling and purchasing practices and serving as private counsel during medical malpractice litigation.
With numerous physicians in his family, and a multitude of medical practitioners as clients, Todd is aware of the need for Malpractice Defense Services and is committed to protecting the practitioner, and ensuring that MDS plays the key role in changing the hostile malpractice environment. <top>
MDS’ Director of Professional Development, Dr. Todd C. Morehouse, D.O., is currently an attending surgeon at Abington Surgical Center, Chestnut Hill, Mercy Suburban, Montgomery and Roxborough Memorial Hospitals. He is also an affiliate staff member at Abington Memorial Hospital. He graduated from Muhlenberg College where he established and served as president of the Muhlenberg Premedical Society. During his residency at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Morehouse received an award for excellence from the American Osteopathic College of Otolaryngology. He trained in all aspects of general and pediatric otolaryngology, including endoscopic sinus, otologic, head and neck, and facial plastic surgeries.
Dr. Morehouse is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Medical Association, American Osteopathic College of Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Otolaryngology. He serves on the board of Roxborough Presbyterian Church and participates in many local, state and civic associations. For his active role in Philadelphia community service, Dr. Morehouse was recently honored with the 2005 City Avenue Physician’s Scholarship Award for ENT.
As a physician, Dr. Morehouse is acutely aware of the malpractice crisis facing the industry. He would like to remain in this area and practice near his family. For him to stay, something must be done, but what? Dr. Morehouse feels that MDS is the answer to that question.<top>
MDS’ Director of Operations, Zachary Cooper, Esq., graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and attended the Widener (Delaware) University School of Law where he earned his J.D. in 2000. Following law school Zachary served as a prosecutor with the Montgomery County Office of District Attorney in Pennsylvania. Zachary played an integral role in holding defendants accountable for their actions on a daily basis. He has prosecuted all types of crimes ranging from simple assaults to murder. His conviction rate was over 96%.
Zachary is currently dedicated to medical malpractice defense. He is an experienced malpractice counsel who prides himself on being a zealous advocate for every client. Zachary is intricately involved in all aspects of medical malpractice law and litigation including pretrial, discovery, trial and post-trial. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Montgomery County Bar Association.
Zachary is concerned that doctors are being sued at an alarming rate in Pennsylvania, and it’s clear that the current nature of malpractice insurance is insufficient to protect physicians’ interests. In his professional experience, most of the doctors sued acted within the standard of care and have to endure countless hours and needless time dealing with frivolous accusations.<top>
MDS’ VP of Sales & Marketing, Troy W. Breininger, grew up in the small town of Hamburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from Hamburg Area High School. He furthered his education at The Pennsylvania State University where, interested in healthcare, he received a Bachelors of Science degree in Kinesiology.
After graduating from Pennsylvania State University, Troy moved to the Philadelphia suburbs to pursue a sales career for an international organization, where he worked as a territory sales manager, managing a 5 million dollar territory consisting of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Troy’s primary responsibility was to design and execute successful sales strategies, as well as build lasting relationships with his clients and their management. He brings all of that experience to MDS.
Troy is excited to play an integral role in minimizing, and indeed, reversing, the negative effects of ineffective and insufficient insurance-provided representation on today’s medical community. He is proud to represent Malpractice Defense Services as the premier protection company for medical practitioners.<top>
MDS’ Director of Sales, Ellen B. Weinberg, was born and raised in the small town of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Ellen received a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in Movement Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Science in Education with an emphasis in Sports Medicine from Old Dominion University. Ellen went on to pass her Certification for Athletic Training in 1992 and has been a long standing member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association since 1990.
Ellen moved to the Philadelphia area to join the Pharmaceutical Industry in Specialty Sales. Within six months of working, Ellen received multiple awards for top sales representative in the nation. Moving on to a start-up pharmaceutical company, Ellen continued to achieve top sales awards as well as earn various esteemed positions in the company such as Sales and Marketing Advisory Board, Managed Care Champion and District Trainer.
Having worked closely with physicians throughout Ellen's careers, and, indeed developing friendships with many, she is enthused by playing a role in changing the state of malpractice lawsuits affecting today's medical community.<top>
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