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| Morgan and Morgan PA | |||
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About Joe Taraska
Joe Taraska - Professional Summary:
Following a sterling career of service with the United States Air Force, Attorney Joseph Taraska has built a remarkable reputation in Florida as a litigator specializing in medical malpractice and product liability. Currently an expert in health law and complex litigation at Morgan & Morgan, P.A., in Orlando, he draws on a deep well of experience in the legal and medical fields. Attorney Joseph Taraska's areas of specialty include nursing home abuse, hospital bylaws, pharmaceutical defects, hospital risk management, state medical licensing, insurance law, and civil rights. Some recent cases won by Attorney Joseph Taraska are a defective drug matter that involved a fatality and resulted in a payout of $13.3 million, and a medical malpractice case that reached a settlement in the amount of $28 million. Attorney Joseph Taraska currently represents parties involved in statewide tobacco litigation. Before coming to Morgan & Morgan, P.A. in 2009, Attorney Joseph Taraska headed the health law division of Jacobs & Goodman, P.A., in Altamonte Springs, starting in 2000. For 16 years prior to that, Attorney Joseph Taraska tackled medical lawsuits on behalf of both patients and hospitals as the Founding Partner of several Orlando-based law firms, among them Taraska, Grower, Ketcham, P.A.; Taraska, Grower, Unger & Ketcham, P.A.; Taraska, Hill, & Grower, P.A.; and Taraska & Hill, P.A. He started private practice as an Associate and subsequently a Partner at the firm of Maguire, Voorhis, and Wells, P.A. Part of Attorney Joseph Taraska’s training in medical law occurred in the Air Force, where he won the rare opportunity to study anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and hospital administration with the Air Force Eastern Regional Medical Center and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP). This experience allowed him to become one of just six Forensic Medical/Legal Consultants in that branch of the military. Attorney Joseph Taraska continues to expand his base of expertise in medical issues through his membership with the Health Law Section of the Florida Bar and the Florida Hospital Bioethics Network. He also has memberships in the National Health Law Association, the American Association for Justice, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Florida Defense Lawyers Association, and the Defense Research Institute.
Joe Taraska - Professional Experience:
11/1/2009 – Present
Morgan and Morgan PA
Senior Trial and Complex Litigation Attorney
Legal Services
Orlando, FL 32801
Joe Taraska is a Senior Trial and Complex Litigation Attorney in the fields of Medical Malpractice including Nursing Home Abuse, Product Liability, Pharmaceutical Defects, Tobacco Litigation, Civil Rights including Privacy Violations,
representation of injured persons, Health Law, Hospital Law, Hospital Credentialing, Hospital Bylaws, Hospital Risk Management, State Medical issues and complaints and those whose rights have been violated. Joe Taraska has secured recent Verdicts and awards to the firm’s clientele in the amounts of $28,000,000; $13,000,000; $6,000,000. Likewise Joe Taraska’s recent settlements have been $10,000,000 in 2010.
1/5/2000 – 10/15/2009
Jacobs & Goodman PA
Head Health Law and Complex Litigation Attorney
Personal Injury Representation
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
In his role as Head of Health Law and Complex Litigation, Joe Taraska worked closely build the proper rapport with each client while managing case loads personally. A personalized and dedicated approach to client management is an attribute that Attorney Joe Taraska is quite familiar with. A Veteran of the United States Air Force, Joe Taraska was conditioned to provide the best in legal services, care and research.
Joe Taraska - Education:
8/1/1969 – 6/1/1972
University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Law
JD
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The JD programs at the best law schools in America will all offer you a fine legal education. You will learn to "think like a lawyer," undergo rigorous intellectual training, and be stretched in ways that you never anticipated (or knew you were capable of).
The JD program at Penn Law offers this - and much, much more. At Penn, your legal education will be enriched by our cross-disciplinary approach to legal study and by our warm and supportive environment.
We are committed to providing students with a legal education that reflects our world. In business, in legal practice, in the public sector and in government, lawyers increasingly need knowledge beyond legal principles and creative legal strategies. Law has never been an isolated discipline, and this is even more paramount today as lawyers navigate the intricacies of working with related fields.
To prepare our students, many of the Penn Law faculty approach their subject matter from a cross-disciplinary perspective, and we actively encourage and make it possible for our students to enroll in courses in the University of Pennsylvania's many esteemed graduate and professional schools. Recognizing the diverse interests and professional needs among our students, our JD program offers an extensive cross-disciplinary approach and also allow students to customize an individual curriculum.
8/1/1965- 6/1/1969
US Air Force Academy
Anatomy, Physiology
Certification
Peterson AFB, CO 80914
Joe Taraska graduated first in Law from the United States Air Force Academy, He was competitively selected as one of only six Air Force officers for training as a Forensic Medical Consultant serving the USAF. Joe Taraska, has authored two text books on Law and Medicine along with numerous contributing chapters in published works by collogues and in industry journal articles.
To be the Air Force's premier institution for developing leaders of character. The essential and enduring mission of the United States Air Force Academy is, "To educate, train and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation." The Officer Development System provides all members of the Academy constituency a framework and set of strategies to accomplish our mission. Within the ODS the Academy executes a single integrated Course of Instruction. Within this COI cadets receive: an accredited Bachelor of Science degree; an intensive program of physical education; and develop enduring leadership competencies through military development. Since Academy graduates must be prepared to assume professional and leadership roles in the 21st century Air Force, the intellectual aspect of officer development includes more than 500 academic courses encompassing basic sciences, engineering, the humanities and social sciences.
Joe Taraska - Interests:
United States Air Force, Civil rights, Medicine, Justice.
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