Richard J. Gianino

Richard (Rick) J. Gianino is a partner and senior litigator in the firm’s Detroit office. He has devoted his professional career to the representation of insurance companies and healthcare providers in multiple areas of litigation and counseling.   

Representative Client Work

Insurance coverage

• Serves as a trusted advisor to a large Michigan mutual insurer, providing policy drafting and marketing advice, coverage analysis and litigation services.
• Represented a large excess carrier in the breast implant coverage litigation, including trial of that matter.
• Represented insurers in ERISA benefits decision with appeals to the Sixth Circuit, ERISA fiduciaries in breach of fiduciary claims, ERISA benefits consultants in professional liability claims.

Healthcare Litigation

• Serves as trusted advisor to state-wide social service organization, providing litigation and regulatory services in the area of assisted living, foster care and independent living settings
• National coordinating counsel for large retail chain pharmacy, overseeing all pharmacy-related litigation and advising on regulatory and reporting matters.
• Represented majority shareholder in minority oppression suit involving health care practice;
• Successfully represented physicians and hospitals in medical liability cases, including successful defense of breast replacement and infectious disease suits.

Professional Affiliations

• Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors - Detroit Barristers’ Association, 1982-84)
• Wayne County Mediation Tribunal, 1988-2000
• State Bar of Michigan (Negligence and Health Care Law sections)
• Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers
• American Bar Association (Litigation, Torts and Insurance practice sections)
• Association of Defense Trial Counsel
• Defense Research Institute
• Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (Claims Committee, and Total Quality Interest Section)

Publications

• Expert Who Signs Affidavit of Merit Need Not be Qualified to Testify Regarding Proximate Cause
• Res Ipsa Does Not Always Speak for Itself: Expert Testimony Needed to Establish Medical Malpractice
• Practice Tips for a Physician Supervising Physician Assistants
• Apsey Update: Out-of-State Notary Certification Requirement to be Applied