Are you an officer and have you discovered fraud in your department? (particularly Medicare and Medicaid fraud), no need to fear, not only can attorney David J Caputo help defend your whistle-blowing activities but he can also ensure you remain employed.
Attorney David J Caputo is the founding partner of Youman & Caputo, a law firm specializing in whistleblower representation and medical malpractice claims.
In this article, we will tell you more about who David J. Caputo is, his educational background, career, practice area, achievements, contacts, and location.
Who is attorney David J. Caputo?
David J. Caputo is an American lawyer who practices in New Jersey and Pennsylvania states.
He is also admitted to practice at the US Court of Appeals of the 3rd Circuit and 9th Circuit and the US Tax Court.
Boasting 20 years of experience practicing law, attorney David Caputo has become one of the leading attorneys in the fields of whistleblower law and medical malpractice law.
Before joining private practice, Mr. Caputo worked as a federal prosecutor.
In his time as a private practitioner, Attorney Caputo represents injured parties in personal injury cases and employees in employment law cases.
Sometimes, during holidays and days off, David coaches youth baseball in his hometown in the State of Delaware.
Educational background
David J. Caputo has an impressive educational background.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) from Duke University in 1992.
While at Duke University he was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor.
In 1996, attorney David J. Caputo attained his Juris Doctor from the Harvard University Law School.
He was also a Master of Laws Student at Beasley School of Law, Temple University where he graduated in 2005 (with honors, in Trial Advocacy).
Career timeline
David J. Caputo began his career as a Federal Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1996 to 1997.
From 1997 until 2002, attorney David Caputo joined Dechert, one of Philadelphia’s largest and most prestigious defense firms, working as an associate.
During his time working at Dechert, he notably represented The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News in libel cases.
In 2002, he joined Kline & Specter, the largest plaintiffs’ firm in Pennsylvania, where he began as an associate, eventually becoming a partner.
At the beginning of 2008, David Caputo began serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. During his time here, he notably was the prosecutor in US v Synthes et al. In this case, a major medical device manufacturer and a subsidiary were found in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in connection with conducting an authorized clinical trial of bone cement.
He held this position until 2010 when he returned to work as a partner at his previous workplace (Kline & Specter).
While at Kline & Specter, he established the department of whistleblower law.
In January 2017, Mr Caputo left Kline & Specter and established Youman and Caputo, LLC.
Mr. Caputo had met the other partner, Andrew Youman at Kline & Specter where both were partners. The firm of Youman and Caputo, LLC focuses on whistleblower law and medical malpractice law and aims to provide personalized and aggressive representation to its clients.
Attorney David Caputo’s last publication was in 1995 where he wrote a commentary on FDA’s proposed tobacco advertising restriction. One of the proposals sought a ban on outside advertising for tobacco products within a specified distance of schools and playgrounds.
When not working as an attorney, Mr Caputo works as a part-time lecturer. He teaches Federal Criminal Law at the Drexel University School of Law where he is also a former adjunct professor.
Notable Career Achievements
While working at Kline & Specter, Mr. Caputo handled catastrophic injury cases including the famous Pier 34 case where the court awarded the plaintiffs a total of $29.5 million. In this case, a century-old pier collapsed causing drowning and injury of revelers who were inside a nightclub hosted by the pier,
For his excellent work in government fraud whistleblower litigation (including qui tam and False Claims Act Cases) and medical malpractice, attorney David Caputo has been Listed by Thomson Reuters as a member of the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers in successive years since 2017. Prior he had been listed as a Rising Star in 2005 and 2006.
In addition, he has received numerous endorsements from professional colleagues in the legal industry
Practice Areas of Attorney David Caputo
An expert in civil and criminal litigation, defamation defense, and healthcare fraud litigation, attorney David J. Caputo has two main practice areas: whistleblower law and medical malpractice law.
Whistleblower law involves representing clients who have information about fraud or misconduct against the government or other entities.
In context, attorney David Caputo has represented clients with information about a variety of schemes to defraud the government. In particular Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
Caputo has a national whistleblower law practice and handles cases under various statutes, such as the False Claims Act (FCA), the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA), the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), and the Securities Exchange Act (SEA).
He has helped his clients recover millions of dollars for the government and themselves by exposing fraud in various sectors, such as health care, pharmaceuticals, defense, education, finance, and more.
Medical malpractice law involves representing clients harmed by the negligence or wrongdoing of healthcare providers or facilities.
Caputo has extensive experience in litigating complex medical malpractice cases involving catastrophic injuries, birth injuries, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, surgical errors, misdiagnosis, medication errors, hospital infections, and more.
He has also obtained numerous verdicts and settlements for his clients that exceed $1 million. One of the most notable verdicts that he has achieved includes a $21.8 million verdict in Delaware County- this verdict was among the 100 largest verdicts given by US courts in 2015.
David J. Caputo achievements
In his time as an attorney, David J. Caputo has achieved quite record-breaking case results for his clients in both whistleblower law and medical malpractice law.
In whistleblower law, some of his notable achievements include:
- Representing the whistleblower in a $35 million FCA settlement with Banner Health in Arizona, the largest FCA settlement in state history.
- Representing the whistleblower in a $28 million FCA settlement with Health Management Associates (HMA) and EmCare Inc., two national healthcare companies that allegedly engaged in improper physician referrals and billing practices.
- Representing the whistleblower in a $15 million FCA settlement with IPC Healthcare Inc., a national hospitalist company that allegedly overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for its services.
- Representing the whistleblower in a $13.45 million FCA settlement with Universal Health Services (UHS), a national hospital chain that allegedly admitted patients who did not need inpatient psychiatric care and billed for unnecessary services.
Attorney David Caputo. Image from LinkedIn
In medical malpractice law, some of his notable achievements include:
- Obtaining a $21.8 million verdict for a woman who suffered a brain injury due to a delayed diagnosis of an infection at a Delaware County hospital.
- Obtaining a $15.57 million verdict for a man who suffered a spinal cord injury due to a surgical error at a Philadelphia hospital, one of the largest verdicts in the city’s history and one of the 100 largest verdicts in the country in 2014.
- Obtaining a $10 million settlement for a woman who suffered a brain injury due to a medication error at a Philadelphia hospital, one of the largest settlements in the state’s history.
- Obtaining a $9.75 million settlement for a man who suffered a brain injury due to a delayed diagnosis of a stroke at a Bucks County hospital, one of the largest settlements in the county’s history.
Bar and professional activity of Attorney Caputo
Respectively, attorney David Caputo joined the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association in 1997 and 2002
David Caputo has served as a member of the following committees and boards:
- the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee
- the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
- the Advisory Board for the Lexis Nexis Practice Guide: Pennsylvania Civil Trial Practice, edited by The Honorable Daniel J. Anders, Supervising Judge of the Civil Trial Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia
Since 2010, Mr. Caputo has been a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, Pennsylvania Association for Justice, Taxpayers Against Fraud, and the American Association for Justice.
To note is that Tax Payers Against Fraud is the leading national organization of lawyers who represent whistleblowers.
Contacts
If you want to contact attorney David J. Caputo, you can use his email or phone number. Alternatively, you can also contact him on LinkedIn.
Listed below are Mr. Caputo’s contact details
- David J. Caputo Email: dcaputo@youmancaputo.com
- David J. Caputo Phone number: (215) 302-1999
- David J. Caputo Fax: (215) 302-1998
The Address of Youman & Caputo LLC is Two Logan Square 100-120 North 18th St., Suite 1925 Philadelphia, PA, 19103
Conclusion
If you are looking for a lawyer to help with medical malpractice lawsuits, whistleblower representation, employment law disputes, or catastrophic injury cases, you might want to consider David J. Caputo.
David J. Caputo is a lawyer who has made a name for himself in whistleblower and medical malpractice laws.
A Harvard Law School graduate, a former federal prosecutor, and a trial advocacy expert, attorney David Caputo has achieved record-breaking settlements for his clients.
He continues to represent clients across the U.S. who want to expose fraud against the government or have suffered serious injuries due to negligence or misconduct of others.
Additionally, Mr Caputo is also recognized as one of the top lawyers in Pennsylvania by various publications and organizations.
Therefore, if you are based in the states of Pennsylvania or New Jersey and in need of a medical malpractice or a whistleblower litigation lawyer you should hire the services of attorney David Caputo.
If you need his help, you can contact him by email, phone, or fax, or visit his office in Philadelphia.