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Nancy A. DeFeo

Education

  • J.D. West Virginia University
    B.S. University of Connecticut
    B.S. West Virginia University

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia


Nancy A. DeFeo
Member

Nancy A. DeFeo
Member

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 18 years in various settings and specialties.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Defended at trial hospital nurses in complex medical malpractice litigation involving alleged failure to recognize signs of congenital heart disease in newborn
  • Defended at trial a client 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 at trial a nurse practitioner 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

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 / AWARDS

  • Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
  • Order of the Coif
  • Patrick Duffy Koontz Award
  • Associate Editor, West Virginia Law Review

PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • “Nursing Documentation in Litigation”