Malpractice defense lawyers: Do they lead physicians astray?

Scary claim. The physicians who lost a record malpractice case says their insurance-appointed lawyers coached them to tell lies:

In the doctors’ suit against their former malpractice lawyers, they claim that the lawyers who were hired by their malpractice insurance company were protecting the interest of the insurance company and not theirs. One of the doctors said he was pressured by the lawyers to say that he always gave a patient a physical exam and a patient history even if such an examination was previously performed by a physician’s assistant. This doctor said he did not perform physicals on patients who had already been seen by a physician’s assistant and that he did not remember personally examining the patient who sued him for malpractice. In spite of being informed by the doctors of the truth, the insurance company’s lawyers continued denying that anyone except the doctor was involved in the patient’s care and treatment.

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