Doctor’s Advocate is immediately ready to fight for a subscribing physician is sued.

Upon being notified of a lawsuit, Doctor’s Advocate engages one of its aggressive in-house attorneys who:

• Collects the facts from the doctor
• Contacts the plaintiff’s attorney and asks that the doctor be removed from the lawsuit within 30 days, if warranted
• Pressures the plaintiff’s attorney to drop the case under the threat of a countersuit, if warranted
• Creates a paper trail that notes all correspondence with the plaintiff’s attorney, building evidence for a countersuit if the case is deemed frivolous
• Communicates extensively with the doctor from the date of engagement to the date when the lawsuit is terminated

The private counsel assigned by Doctor’s Advocate is copied on all correspondence regarding the doctor’s case. Their job is to get the doctor dropped from the lawsuit as quickly as possible.

Doctor’s Advocate also:

• Works with the attorney appointed to the doctor by his or her insurance company to ensure proper handling of the case
• Seeks decertification medical experts – or “hired guns”*
• Seeks decertification of unethical lawyers**
• Contacts the doctor’s insurance company and asks them to withdraw or reduce insurance surcharges
• Monitors the Medical Board to ensure that the case is reviewed and dismissed as quickly as possible

* When a physician is sued, a Certificate of Merit must be signed by a physician in the same specialty of the defendant acknowledging his or her potential liability. These “experts” are paid handsomely to testify against physicians. Doctor’s Advocate finds these “hired guns” and seeks to have them stripped of their specialty certification, where warranted.

** Doctor’s Advocate also reports plaintiffs’ attorneys to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court and/or the U.S. Attorney, where warranted.