Our practice is concentrated in the litigation of serious personal injury and wrongful death claims resulting from medical malpractice, auto accidents and defective products. We also litigate "bad faith" cases against insurance companies for wrongful denial of claims or lowball offers.

Medical malpractice claims and lawsuits can arise when people are injured by careless or intentional acts of a doctor, nurse, psychiatrist, dentist, chiropractor, podiatrist, hospital, or other healthcare provider. When these actions cause an injury to another person (but the actions do not rise to the level of a crime), they are said to be a "tort," or civil wrong, which can provide the basis for a lawsuit. When someone is determined to be legally responsible for injuring someone else, they are liable for the injury, and may be made to pay the injured person compensatory damages. Compensatory damages attempt to put an injured person back in the position he or she was in before being injured. In some cases, punitive damages are also awarded in these lawsuits. Punitive damages are intended to punish wrongdoers and prevent them from harming others.

Carl Frederick has been a practicing trial lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky for over 33 years. He has taken more than 100 cases to trials in that time. In 1992 Carl became certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. NBTA is the pre-eminent certifying body for trial lawyers in the United States and is accredited by the American Bar Association.

In 1998, Carl's son Steve Frederick joined his practice, with a focus on medical malpractice cases and serious personal injury