Allen C. King

Allen King is partner at Starnes Davis Florie and serves as the firm’s Co-Hiring Partner. Allen’s practice has been devoted to civil litigation to include professional medical liability, healthcare litigation, and general business litigation.

Professional Recognition

•Rising Star by Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine.
•Best Lawyers in America 'Ones to Watch' (2021-2023)

Highlights

•Secured a defense verdict on behalf of a urologist and his practice group in a case where the plaintiff alleged medical malpractice arising from a urological surgery and the scope of preoperative consent relative to surgery.
•Enforced binding arbitration agreement after evidentiary hearing in case alleging sexual assault of a nursing home resident (affirmed on appeal) Czoka v. Life Care Centers of America, Inc., et al.
•Obtained judgment as a matter of law in favor of a family medicine physician and his medical assistant following the trial of a combined personal injury and wrongful death case.
•Obtained a defense verdict in favor of two OB/GYNs in a two-week maternal death trial alleging negligent management of gestational hypertension and negligence in failing to administer diuretics in the postpartum period.
•Obtained a defense verdict in favor of a neurosurgeon in a wrong level spinal surgery case involving allegations of a breach in the standard of care by operating at the T8-9 level instead of the intended T9-10 level.
•Obtained defense verdict for a Birmingham internal medicine physician in a lawsuit alleging wrongful death of a 26 year old mentally disabled female.
•Obtained a judgment as a matter of law in favor of an emergency room physician in a wrongful death case alleging negligence in the work-up of a patient who presented to the emergency department.
•Obtained a defense verdict in favor of an obstetrician-gynecologist in a wrongful death case alleging negligent management of a pregnancy.
•Obtained a defense verdict in favor of an obstetrician-gynecologist in a case alleging negligent management of a suspected ectopic pregnancy.
•Obtained a defense verdict for an emergency physician in a case alleging negligent failure to diagnose septic arthritis, resulting in below the knee amputation.
•Obtained affirmance from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals of summary judgment on behalf of a urologist in a case alleging medical malpractice and deliberate indifference.

Presentations and Publications

•“Responding to Discovery Subpoenas: Alabama,” Practical Law Litigation (Spring 2015).
•A Practice Manager’s Guide to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, Medical Group Management Association, Alabama (October 18, 2016)

News & Insights

•35 Starnes Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2026
•Fourteen Attorneys Selected for Mid-South Super Lawyers 2024
•Starnes Attorneys White, King & Grizzle Obtain Defense Verdict in Seven-Day Jury Trial
•33 Starnes Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2025
•SDF’s Wright, King & Grizzle Obtain Defense Verdict for Urologist in Med Mal Trial
•Eleven Attorneys Selected for Mid-South Super Lawyers 2023
•30 Starnes Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2024
•16 Starnes Attorneys Listed in the 2022 Edition of Mid-South Super Lawyers
•30 SDF ATTORNEYS LISTED IN BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA 2023
•Starnes Davis Florie Promotes Three Attorneys to Partner
•TWENTY-TWO ATTORNEYS NAMED TO THE 2021 EDITION OF MID-SOUTH SUPER LAWYERS
•29 SDF ATTORNEYS LISTED IN BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA 2022
•Alan Bean and Allen King Win in the Tennessee Court of Appeals to Enforce Clients’ Binding Arbitration Rights
•Twenty-Six Attorneys Named to the 2020 Edition of Mid-South Super Lawyers
•Executive Order Provides Immunity
•THIRTY-ONE SDF ATTORNEYS NAMED TO THE 2019 EDITION OF MID-SOUTH SUPER LAWYERS
•SDF Attorneys Wright, Scivley & King Win Trial in Combined Wrongful Death/Personal Injury Case
•THIRTY-ONE SDF ATTORNEYS NAMED TO THE 2018 EDITION OF MID-SOUTH SUPER LAWYERS
•Trial Win for SDF’s Wright & Newton in Med Mal/Professional Liability Case
•SDF Attorneys Wright, Newton & King Obtain Defense Verdict in Wrongful Death Case