** Physician Malpractice Judgments **

Why are Doctor Malpractice Judgments so difficult to obatain? All state medical boards operate differently when it comes to obtaining this type of information. There are different reasons why many verdicts and arbitration awards are missing from there databases. Many (companies) are no longer relying on state medical boards, but are purchasing databases (malpractice information) and adding malpractice information to their databases. Only a tiny fraction of the thousands of medical malpractice suits filed each year ever reach a jury. And many of those that do are eventually settled to avoid a lengthy and costly appeal, effectively keeping all but a handful of cases out of the Medical Board's public database. That's one reason why companies are going elsewhere to retrieve this type of doctor credential information, or in some cases are forming Strategetic partnerships.