Van Winkle • Baten Dispute Resolution

Former plastic surgeon partners severed their relationship. Each has the intention of competing in the same geographic area. The partners reached a tentative agreement brokered by a 3rd party doctor of mutual agreement, but this agreement fell through. The partner that took most of the equipment with him in the original breakup entered into a structured settlement to pay the other partner for the equipment. There remained sufficient mutual professional respect to allow the parties to overcome the legal positioning that wrecked the original agreement.