Kentucky Injury Law Blog

Ben Glass of the Northern Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer Blog has a distressing story about a website that publishes the names and personal information of people who have sued doctors.  The apparent aim is to get subesquent doctors to refuse treatment to people who have filed lawsuits.

Website to Discourage Caring for MedMal Victims
July 25, 2006
By Ben Glass of the Northern Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

What will they think of next? Here is a website that will publish, in Florida (for now) the names of patients who will have filed, but "not prevailed" in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Under the guise of "this is news" this site is apparently designed to discourage doctors from accepting these patients for care.

But wait... there's more....

You can have your name listed there even if you sued the doctor, and settled your case out of court! You see, because this database is purportedly derived from public records, they have no way of knowing whether you "lost" your case, or whether the doctor paid you a million dollars. So, if the purpose is to "out" patient who have lost cases, it's valueless.

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Website to Discouarage Caring for MedMal Victims - Northern Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer.