Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins is pleased to announce that the following attorneys from the firm have been recognized as 2022 Mid-South Super Lawyers:

• Overton S. Anderson – Medical Malpractice, Insurance Coverage, and Professional Liability
• Randy P. Murphy – Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, and Civil Litigation
• Mariam T. Hopkins – Medical Malpractice, Insurance Coverage, and Product Liability
• Michael P. Vanderford – Personal Injury, Construction Law, and Class Action and Mass Torts
• Mark Wankum – Medical Malpractice

Being named to the Super Lawyers list is a prestigious distinction that only the top 5% of attorneys in each state receive.

AMH attorneys, Mike Vanderford and Will McGrath, had a great time competing for “Team AMH” at the 2022 Children’s Protection Center Shootout Sporting Trap tournament on Friday, October 14^th.   AMH served as a sponsor for the event, which raises money to support the Children’s Protection Center in carrying out its mission to provide a child-friendly facility where professionals work together to protect and treat child abuse victims and their families, to prevent child abuse in all its forms, and to hold offenders accountable.

Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins relocated its office on September 24, 2021, to the Harbor District. Our new address is 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A, Little Rock, AR 72202-2267.

Amelia Botteicher presented “Lawyer Professional Liability Claims, Trends and Post-Covid Landscape” at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association on June 15, 2021.

Debbie Denton has been elected as the President of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel. She began her service as President in August 2020.

Amelia Botteicher has been selected to serve as a member on the 2020-2021 Board of the Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers and is Chairing the Communications Committee.

Amelia Botteicher has received an invitation to join the Henry Woods Inn of Court.

Mariam Hopkins was inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers in London, England, on April 12, 2019.

Caleb D. Lang joined the firm as an associate in 2019 after clerking with Justice Shawn Womack on the Arkansas Supreme Court for two years. During his clerkship, he attended numerous oral arguments and worked on a wide array of legal issues including tax issues, civil rights, capital cases, real property, constitutional law, appellate practice, family law, administrative law, and election issues. In law school, Caleb won the interschool moot court competition, served as Note and Comment Editor on the Arkansas Law Review, was a member of one of the traveling moot court teams, and was a member of the Board of Advocates. In his free time, Caleb enjoys spending time with his dog on the Buffalo River.

His practice will focus on general civil litigation and insurance defense.

Julie Hancock successfully defended a pediatric emergency room physician in a medical malpractice trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. The patient, an 18-year-old male, presented to the emergency department of a children’s hospital with a complaint of chest pain. The patient was examined, given pain medication, and an EKG was performed. He was discharged from the emergency department when no emergent problems were detected. He died two months later of an aortic dissection which was a complication of an undiagnosed, rare genetic disorder. Plaintiff alleged that if the emergency department physician had ordered a chest x-ray, the condition would have been diagnosed, the patient would have undergone a timely surgery, and the patient would have survived.

The defense presented expert testimony to demonstrate that a chest x-ray was not required by the standard of care under these circumstances and that it would not have revealed anything at the time of the patient’s presentation to the emergency department. Plaintiff argued that statistics supported her position that a chest x-ray would have been revealing and that it was a deviation from the standard of care to fail to order it.

The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant emergency room physician.