David H. Abney, II

office: (502) 352-2450
email: david@abneymagruder.com

David manages the Frankfort office and focuses his practice on Healthcare Subrogation and Personal Injury litigation. He is committed to maximizing tort recoveries for accident victims. David also works to insure his clients are able to keep as much of their recovery as possible by fiercely contesting health insurance liens.

David has extensive experience with ERISA, HIPAA, FEHBA, Medicare and Medicaid. He spent three years as Associate General Counsel for the largest post-payment health care recovery vendor in the United States. Over that time, he resolved hundreds of subrogation and reimbursement claims, advised medical benefits plans on issues such as plan language and recovery tactics and managed litigation matters. He also contributed to the publication of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 versions of The National Subrogation Law Manual. Now he uses this expertise to help accident victims.

David co-founded the law firm of Abney and Magruder, PLLC in 2007. Mr. Abney received his B.A., Cum Laude, from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia where he majored in History and Communication. He received his law degree from the University of Kentucky, College of Law.

During law school David assisted Professor Mary Davis with her treatise, Madden and Owen on Products Liability, 3rd and was a member of UK’s Civil Trial Team which won the 2001 Raleigh, North Carolina Regional Tournament, eventually placing in the top ten at the ATLA National Civil Trial Competition in New Orleans. He was also a member of the Moot Court Board and was elected to the Student Bar Association.

After graduation, David spent nine months in a Judicial Clerkship. In June, 2002 he became an associate with The Morgan Law Firm in Lexington, Kentucky where he handled personal injury cases and assisted with mass consumer fraud and pharmaceutical tort litigation. It was there that he first became familiar with Healthcare Subrogation. In 2004, Mr. Abney left private practice and accepted the position of Associate General Counsel to the Rawlings Group in Louisville, Kentucky.

David is passionate about representing tort victims and takes pride in his relationships with his clients.

He lives in Frankfort, Kentucky with his wife Susan and their two daughters Ella and Helen.

Admitted to the bar: Kentucky (2001). Admitted to practice: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Education: University of Kentucky College of Law (J.D. 2001); Mercer University (B.A. History and Communication, cum laude, 1998).

Member of the Kentucky Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Kentucky Justice Association and the Frankfort Bar Association.