What Do You Do When A Malpractice Suit Strikes?
Your insurance company is going to pay for the attorney, because they have a vested interest in defending you. But that attorney may decide it’s cheaper to pay the claim than to fight it. Is that what you want?
Hey, Doc! Here’s The Cure For What Ails Ya!
Doctors, dentists and certain other health care professionals have different worries to add to that bundle. They worry about being sued for malpractice. They don’t generally worry about doing a bad job that leads to such a suit. They worry about some greedy and unscrupulous trial lawyer thinking of them as the fatted calf, seeing them as an opportunity to get rich quickly. That concern is far from unfounded. All too often, trial lawyers see doctors exactly like that…
Dr. Jeff Segal published in “Health Reform Report”
Dr. Segal’s article, “Doctor-to-Doctor: The Administration Promises “Budget Dust” To Fix Medical Malpractice Morass” was just published by the Center for Health Transformation’s Health Reform Report. Read the article here.
Litigation Promotes Patient Safety – Are You Kidding?
Recently, a defense attorney hosted Malpractice 101 on the physician social networking site, sermo.com. A multitude of questions were answered. Sprinkled in the answers was the conclusion the tort system has a number of salutary effects – namely patient safety. The moderator recited the (now … Read more
Medical Justice on ReachMD
Medical Justice CEO, Dr. Jeff Segal, was recently featured on the ReachMD radio program “Preventing Frivolous Lawsuits and Frivolous Testimony,” hosted by Shane Jackson, Executive Vice President of Jackson Healthcare/President, LocumTenens.com. Dr. Segal shared his experience of being sued, and his expertise in the areas … Read more
Healthcare Reform – A Duty To Patients, A Call To Arms
Much of the country may be fatigued by the wrangling over healthcare reform, but to allow this ill-conceived plan to continue into practice would be a far greater burden than to revisit the subject.
Flawed Malpractice Insurance Profiling Affects 22% of Physicians
“The RAND study shows that physician ratings conducted by insurers can be wrong up to two-thirds of the time for some groups of physicians,” said AMA President J. James Rohack. … Even if the flawed results are put aside, it’s still apples and oranges. If a lower-cost upscale NYC physician moves to the cornfields of Kansas, is he suddenly a high risk by comparison?
Look Who’s Getting a Tax Break: Plaintiff’s Attorneys
The Treasury Department is rumored to be on the verge of reversing a long-standing policy which did not help personal injury attorneys. The status quo: litigation expenses in contingency agreements are not deductible. Litigation expenses in contingency agreements are considered loans advanced to the plaintiff. … Read more
And THEN they said…
That relatively healthy 50 year old patient will soon be required to carry health insurance, or suffer paying fines that are nearly equal to that premium. If they can’t afford (or reasonably justify) the premium, how will they afford the fines? Is the United States about to become a nation with a debtor’s prison? …
Why Should We Care About Caps?
So why should we care about Caps? After all, most patients are honest and appreciative, right? Caps matter because not having them is costing every one of us, patient and doctors alike. They steal money that has to be paid by SOMEone (read: the patients.) More importantly, they steal the time and energy of the physician being wrongfully accused… Next time you need to get in to see a physician, you may find there’s quite a wait, because Doctor is away this week giving a deposition — for a meritless case filed by the greedy exception.
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