Background
Benesch, Katherine was born on January 18, 1946 in Baltimore. Daughter of Isaac and Jane (Van Praag) Benesch.
Benesch, Katherine was born on January 18, 1946 in Baltimore. Daughter of Isaac and Jane (Van Praag) Benesch.
Bachelor, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1968; Master in Public Health, Yale University, 1970; Juris Doctor, Duquesne U., 1979.
Worked at Benesch & Obade, P.C. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) specializing in Health Care Law, Litigation, Commercial Law, Employment Law, Medical Malpractice, Business Law. Admitted to the bar, 1980, Pennsylvania and United States. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania.
1981, United States. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. 1985, United States. Supreme Court. 1991, New Jersey and United States.
District Court, District of New Jersey. 1992, District of Columbia. Author: "Risk Management in Pennsylvania Hospitals: Panacea or Poison?" 47 Insurance Counsel Journal 334, July, 1980.
Making Physician Consolidation Work, National Health Lawyers Association, 1997. "Managed Care Liability: An Expansion of Familiar Theories," 9(3) The Health Lawyer (1997). "Privileges and Confidentiality," Medical and Hospital Negligence, Callaghan & Company, 1988.
"Medical Staff Privileges: Competition for Physical Profits," 25 TRIAL 57 (May, 1989). "Legal Issues in Determining Competency to Make Treatment Decisions," Jossey-Bass, 1989. "Selected Regulatory Issues Affecting Medical Staff," American Bar Association, 1991.
"Cost-Benefit Factors in New Case Selection," 28 TRIAL 20, January 1992. "Economic Credentialing and the Fraud and Abuse Caveat," 6 Medical Staff Counselor 27, Fall 1992. "Foregoing Life-Sustaining Therapy in Hopeless Cases," Textbook of Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care, Mosby, 1992.
"Credentialing Criteria Puts Hospitals at Risk," 133 New Jersey Law Journal 10 (April 5, 1993). "AIDS and the ADA in the Health Care Workplace," 23 THE BRIEF 22 (Spring 1994). "Contract Negotiation: Survival for Hospital Medical Staffs," 7 CAPITAL PHYSICIAN QUARTERLY 21 (Spring 1994).
Editor, Medicolegal Aspects of Critical Care, Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1986. Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1982-1992. Chairperson, Princeton Regional Health Commission.
Advisory Board, BNA Health Law Reporter. Arbitrator, Dalkon Shield Program, Duke University Private Adjudication Center. Member: Princeton, Mercer County, Allegheny County, New Jersey State, Pennsylvania and American (Chair, New Jersey State Bar Association Health and Hospital Law Section.
Vice Chair, Medicine and Law Committee. Secretary, Princeton Bar Association. Governing Committee-Forum on Health Law) Bar Associations.
National Health Lawyers Association. Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
Fellow American Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association, Association Trial Lawyers American, American Arbitration Association, National Health Lawyers Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association (delegate) AlleghenyCounty Bar Association (Board of Governors), American Academy Hospital Attorneys, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Western Pennsylvania Society Hospital Attorneys, New Jersey Bar Association, Mercer County Bar Association, Princeton Bar Association.
Married Thomas Romer, October 21, 1977.