Practices
Education
- J.D. West Virginia University
B.S. University of Connecticut
B.S. West Virginia University
Bar Admissions
- West Virginia
Nancy A. DeFeo Member
Nancy A. DeFeo Member
- United Center
1085 Van Voorhis Rd.
Suite 400
Morgantown, WV 26507 - Morgantown, West Virginia
- 304.598.8122
- nancy.defeo@steptoe-johnson.com
- nancy.defeo@steptoe-johnson.com
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Nancy DeFeo focuses her practice in the areas of medical professional liability, long term care litigation and general insurance defense. Before entering the practice of law, Ms. DeFeo practiced as a registered nurse for more than eighteen years in various settings and specialties.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Defended hospital nurses at trial in complex medical malpractice litigation involving alleged failure to recognize signs of congenital heart disease in newborn
- Defended a client at trial in litigation involving a car crash and a complex series of events and issues of causation leading to fire damage to an apartment building
- Defended a nurse practitioner at trial in litigation involving alleged failure to appropriately advise a referring physician when arranging for the transport of a newborn
- Represented a real estate broker in a suit for alleged failure to disclose conditions and defects in a residential property
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
- Professional liability
- Insurance defense
- Long term care litigation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999 Steptoe & Johnson
1996 Assistant Attorney General, Revenue, Education and Transportation Division of the West Virginia State Office of the Attorney General
1995 Writ Clerk, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
AWARDS / HONORS
- Order of the Coif
- Patrick Duffy Koontz Award
- Associate Editor, West Virginia Law Review
PUBLICATIONS
- “Nursing Documentation in Litigation”