Physician Entrepreneur Celebrates Five Years Of Protecting Good Doctors Against Bad Lawyers

This April, entrepreneur, neurosurgeon Jeffery Segal, MD, FACS, and founder of Medical Justice Services, celebrates five years of relentlessly and successfully defending physicians against frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits - a defense that often includes taking the first punch.

"Physicians are healers, and not fighters," said Segal, a board-certified neurosurgeon. Waiting it out and hoping for the best is no longer an option, at least not in the courtroom."

With Segal's help, American physicians have begun to heal their ailing professions by taking off the surgical gloves and striking back against personal injury lawyers, unreasonable plaintiffs, and unethical expert witnesses who file frivolous medical liability lawsuits.

Over the past decade, tens of thousands of physicians across the United States have been forced from their practices due to skyrocketing costs of professional liability insurance premiums. One of the major drivers behind those rising costs is rampant medical malpractice lawsuits - the majority of which were found to have no merit. Frivolous lawsuits come in many shapes and colors. The list includes cases that seek compensation for an untoward outcome where no breach of a standard of care occurred. It also includes lawsuits for medical errors that never took place. Finally, it might involve a case where actual malpractice may have happened, but the lawsuit includes all physicians whose names were found in the patient's chart. Most of those named in a "shotgun" suit such as this have no connection to the procedure in question. Indeed, some of these physicians might have actually been called to save the patient; their benevolence being rewarded by being dragged into a collective lawsuit.

"The rise of medical malpractice cases has forced many doctors out of the operating room and into the courtroom," said Segal. "Win or lose, doctors who are sued for medical malpractice lose hundreds of hours to depositions, preparation, and time in court. In addition they pay a price in terms of their reputation and ultimately income. The impact goes far beyond dollars and cents as frivolous cases invariably cause a great deal of stress, anxiety, and depression. The ripple effects reach deeply into physicians' personal lives as their families are also caught up in the quagmire." This is more than just theory to Segal. He endured the effects of just such a lawsuit, allowing him to viscerally understand what many physicians in the country had already experienced. That frivolous lawsuit became the driving force that gave him an idea that, over the past five years, has kept thousands of physicians and their loved ones from experiencing the same.

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