Profile

Leigh Hickman regularly represents hospitals, physicians, nurses, allied medical professionals, medical device manufacturers and their insurers.

While at Washington & Lee University, Ms. Hickman was the Managing Editor of the Washington & Lee Law Review.

Experience Highlights

Ms. Hickman routinely deals with a broad range of issues that arise in tort and insurance practice, including:

• Professional malpractice defense and risk management issues for hospitals, physicians and other learned professionals
• Personal injury, wrongful death and property damage claims
• Workplace accidents and premises liability claims
• Nursing home negligence claims
• Insurance coverage disputes
• Sexual abuse claims

News

• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• New Difficulties in Defeating Apparent Agency Claims
  Liability Alert
  September 1, 2007

Publications

"Diggs v. Novant Health, Inc.: New Difficulties in Defeating Apparent Agency Claims," The Defender, Volume XVI, Number 2 (Winter 2008)

"Diggs v. Novant Health, Inc.: New Difficulties in Defeating Apparent Agency Claims," Prognosis, Vol. 24, No. 2 (February 2008)

"Red Flagging Civil Liberties and Due Process Rights of Airline Passengers: Will a Revised CAPPS II System Meet the Constitutional Challenge?" 61 Washington & Lee Law Review 1385 2004

Memberships

• North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
  Member
• Charlotte Children's Choir
  Board of Directors, 2008-present
• Chief Justice William H. Bobbitt American Inn of Court
  President, 2009-2010
• Arts & Science Council
  Cultural Leadership Training (CLT) Program Participant, 2007-2008