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A highly regarded trial lawyer and leader in the legal profession, Margaret "Peggy" Holm defends health care organizations and providers, hospitals, medical professionals, nursing homes, long term care facilities, and national and regional insurers.
Focus Areas
In over 150 trials, Peggy has amassed an outstanding record of obtaining defense verdicts, early dismissals and favorable settlements. Her clients face high demands and allegations of medical malpractice, wrongful death, abuse and neglect. She also handles employment litigation, general, premises and professional liability matters with major damages exposure. Peggy has experience defending employers in cases involving a wide range of employment law issues, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour/employee classifications, and breach of contract claims.
Whether at trial or in arbitration, Peggy protects clients through her deft handling and interpretation of expert testimony, causation issues and damage assessment. The range of complex and catastrophic injury cases she defends is expansive.
Representative Matters Include:
- Mass action claims associated with organ transplants and Medicare payments.
- Defending gynecologists and psychiatrists against sexual abuse allegations.
- Minimizing trucking companies' risk exposure in major vehicular incidents.
- HOA liability in construction defect and related brain damage claims.
- Premises liability for night clubs and hotels.
- Defending catastrophic injury claims related to anesthesia, neurosurgical, birth, and wrongful death.
Peggy's skills in trial discovery, presentation and advocacy earned her an invitation to the American College of Trial Lawyers where she is a Fellow. She is also the third woman in the history of the American Board of Trial Advocates elevated to the prestigious rank of Diplomate.
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