Services
Doctor's Advocate is immediately ready to fight for a subscribing health care professional who is sued. Upon being notified of a lawsuit and reviewing the case, Doctor's Advocate will implement the following tactics to keep you in the exam room and out of the courtroom.
Chart Review
Doctor's Advocate's legal team will work with the malpractice insurance provider by providing expert medical chart review to detect frivolous cases.
Patient Mediation
If Doctor's Advocate determines the case is frivolous, we will encourage the litigating patient to drop the case and to engage in open communication with the physician.
Legal Services
Upon contacting Doctor's Advocate, members who are sued are immediately appointed an aggressive private counsel who will:
- Pressure the plaintiff's attorney to drop the case under the threat of a countersuit, if warranted
- Create 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 disbarment of unethical lawyers**
- 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.