Health Care Lawyer Blog

I would like to introduce myself and my new HEALTH CARE LAWYER BLOG. I have been practicing business and health related transactional, regulatory and litigation law since 1969 when I graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and joined a firm in Detroit (after a stint as law clerk to the Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals). Presently, I am a Principal Member of Frank, Haron, Weiner and Navarro, P.L.C., a boutique law firm in Troy, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit. I have been named a Super Lawyer for 2007 by Law & Politics Magazine and am active in the community and the Bar Association.

Health Care is the number one industry in the United States and certainly in Michigan where most other industries are in the doldrums. There is more construction in Michigan in the health care field than any other (except, perhaps, casinos!) and the issues -- regulatory and transactional-are immense. Recently, my partner, Monica Navarro, and I taught a Health Care Law Class at Cooley Law School in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The subject, taught from a 1400 page text book covered everything from the definition of disease to the drug industry to antitrust considerations to death and dying. The students were fascinated by the breadth and scope of the subject--as were we when we looked at the text book. Given the attention the "health care crisis" is receiving in the current political campaign and the rising cost of health care in America and throughout the world, the subject--and this Blog--will have a long life.

Plese return often for insight into the area, information on subjects new to you and for detailed information in areas that will be of assistance to medical practitioners, attorneys and the general public.