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WHY MALPRACTICE DEFENSE SERVICES (MDS)?
One in four physicians will be sued this year.
As a medical practitioner, DO YOU KNOW YOUR RIGHTS when, not if, you are named as a Defendant in a medical malpractice lawsuit? MDS knows.
It is our goal to get you, the medical practitioner, removed from the lawsuit as soon as possible. If you are one of the unlucky ones, and statistics say you likely will be, you really don’t have an advocate. Doctors in medical malpractice cases do not have anyone on their side representing and looking out for their best interests. The insurance-appointed counsel is representing, and paid by, the insurance company. They are looking out for the insurance company’s best interests. You are represented by us, and we are answerable to you, our client. MDS will be your eyes and ears throughout the litigation process and ensure that your voice is heard.
MDS will be in constant contact with the insurance-appointed counsel, insurance adjuster and plaintiff’s counsel to hold them accountable for their actions as well as inactions. MDS will be accountable and answerable to you, our client, while the insurance appointed counsel has and always will be accountable only to the insurance company. MDS will be available to you, our client, 24/7. This means that you will have one of our attorneys’ contact information for any questions or concerns that you may have regarding the case. We at MDS guarantee that your questions will be answered in a timely and efficient manner.
Medical malpractice cases can go on for years. The longer you are involved in the case, the more money the insurance appointed counsel makes. They have little interest in having you removed from your case in a timely manner. We at MDS understand how this affects your professional life as well as your family life and we will work to maintain your good name and reputability in the community. If you are not negligent, we will work with all parties involved, applying pressure, ferociously monitoring all parties involved, and passing the information directly to the insurance adjuster, in order to get you removed from the suit as soon as possible. MDS gives you the voice you lack and deserve. If your actions did not fall below the standard of care then you should not be involved in the case. You should not have to wait three or four years to have your name removed. If you are negligent and culpable to any degree, we are by your side, working to demonstrate lower culpability, if applicable, via retaining our own experts and constant vigilance. We will also work to negotiate a lower settlement on your behalf.
How does this work? Facing more than just the insurance-appointed counsel, plaintiffs will be more likely to remove your name sooner. Also, by keeping in touch with the insurance adjuster, the one paying the bills for the outside counsel, MDS will pressure the outside counsel to resolve your issues in a timelier manner. If you should have been removed a year, month, week or day ago, and insurance-appointed counsel is still dragging the matter out, we’ll let the adjuster know. They don’t want to continue paying for counsel if you should be out of the case.
Also, unlike the insurance-appointed counsel, MDS is not getting paid hourly. It is in MDS’ best interests to get you out as soon as possible.
Other “services” may claim to offer similar assistance, but read the terms carefully- they are not offering attorney services. All these other “services” provide you with is an expert to help you determine if you were culpable and if the suit is frivolous or not. Then they provide you with the name of an attorney, one that you could have found anyway, to help you sue the plaintiff and plaintiff’s counsel for filing that frivolous suit. Their “services” don’t even begin unless you win your malpractice case.
You, as a medical practitioner, know if a suit against you is frivolous or not. You don’t need an expert to tell you that. And, you are fully competent to find your own attorney to countersue. If you’d like, MDS will assist you with such referrals, as well, as part of our services.
No other organization provides the services and solution that MDS does.
As our client, you will be afforded a variety of services. You will be kept informed and be “in the loop” throughout the entire process, something that is lacking today.
MDS will become knowledgeable with your entire case, exhaustively reviewing the entire medical record, as well as all legal documents, regardless of how voluminous.
MDS will assist you in all phases of the discovery process including assistance in answering interrogatories. In Level II Protection, MDS will attend your deposition as well as the deposition of the plaintiff and make sure that your interests are being protected. Further, MDS will remain in constant communication with all interested parties throughout the litigation process and keep you informed each step of the way. Besides our basic services, which are covered under Level I and II Protection, MDS also offers a variety of Value Added Services which you, the client, can choose to participate in if the situation or need presents itself.
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