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Mary Kate Mullen

Mary Kate represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, education, manufacturing, and real estate. She has experience in all stages of litigation, including fact investigations, initial pleadings, discovery, depositions, and trial strategy. Mary Kate focuses her practice on the defense of medical malpractice claims and the defense of commercial claims, including contract disputes and business torts on behalf of pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers.

Plaintiffs often disclose medical experts to opine not only as to the diagnosis or prognosis of an injury or medical condition, but also as to whether the defendant’s actions caused plaintiff’s alleged injury/condition. In the usual course of treatment, physicians often focus simply on the diagnosis a patient’s injury/condition, rather than on what caused it. Thus, when medical records contain statements regarding causation, those statements typically derive solely from a patient’s own subjective statements. It is therefore important to distinguish between a patient’s subjective causation statements and objective medical evidence.