John E. Suthers

John E. Suthers is a lawyer’s lawyer. He is often associated by other lawyers and law firms in specialized legal matters. Over his 35 year career, he has handled successfully a wide variety of complex personal injury and wrongful death cases. He was among the first attorneys in the United States to sue and obtain a jury verdict against a nursing home for abusing and neglecting an elderly patient. He has represented victims of medical malpractice in cases against doctors and hospitals, individuals who were injured as a result of defective products, including defective medical and surgical products and dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. He has tried and resolved successfully complex motor vehicle cases, such as tractor trailer collisions and railroad crossing cases. These types of cases often involve representing individuals who have suffered catastrophic injuries requiring lifetime medical care, and require an attorney who is skilled at presenting the economic and non-economic losses associated with a permanent, catastrophic injury or wrongful death. When the City of Savannah, Georgia, decided to file a lawsuit against the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids, the City retained Mr. Suthers’ law firm to represent it in the national opioid litigation pending in Federal court in Ohio.