Preventing Medical Malpractice Suits
Medical Justice® pre-emptively deters frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits, provides early action if a plan member is sued for medical malpractice, and makes effective response strategies a viable, affordable, and expedient option when appropriate.
Services common to all plans are:
- Pursuit of counterclaims against expert witnesses in their professional societies and state licensing boards
- Published database of members on the Internet to notify plaintiffs and their representatives that the physician is backed by an organization with the expertise, will, and funds to fight back
- Establishment of pre-emptive critical practice infrastructure to deter plaintiffs without interfering with the patient-doctor relationship
- Proactive early action strategy that can be executed in the event you are sued for medical malpractice
- Access to PEER team of volunteer defense experts
- License to use Patient-Physician contract template language
- License to use contract template language to prevent being forced into small-claims court
- License to use contract template language to prevent physicians being defamed on the Internet
- Access to program to address unwarranted requests for refunds or write-offs
- Allocation of up to $100,000 as assignee to pursue viable counterclaims, when requested and appropriate
Medical Justice is offered across the country and includes plans ranging from prospective (future-events) to historical (prior-events), as well as service for open medical malpractice lawsuits. Click here to receive specific details on the benefits of Medical Justice membership.
Prospective: provides basic forward-events benefits, effective from the date of membership.
Retroactive: provides past-events benefits for medical events that occurred prior to membership, with a benefits option dating back as far as residency.
PE Shield : addresses pre-existing, open medical malpractice cases. This plan provides benefits for physicians with a pending medical malpractice lawsuit that was filed prior to Medical Justice membership.
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