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Web Site Encourages Blacklist of Med-Mal Plaintiffs
Web Site Encourages Blacklist of Med-Mal Plaintiffs
Rebecca Riddick
Daily Business Review
July 25, 2006
Law.com
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1153744532499>
In the latest effort to enable doctors to shun patients who sue, an
offshore company has launched an Internet site that lists the names of
plaintiffs who have filed medical malpractice cases in Florida and their
attorneys.
The site, LitiPages.com, encourages doctors to consider avoiding patients
who are listed in the database, and it strongly encourages plaintiffs who
have lost their cases at trial to turn around and sue their plaintiffs
attorney.
"If your attorney proceeded with a lawsuit without warning you of the
risks involved, you may be the victim of Legal Malpractice and may be
entitled to compensation," the site states.
The new Web site is likely to trigger a fresh round of acrimony between
doctors and plaintiffs lawyers in their long-running war over medical
malpractice litigation. Plaintiffs lawyers and medical ethics experts say
the LitiPages.com site is unethical.
Andrew Yaffa, a plaintiffs attorney at Grossman Roth Olin Meadow Cohen
Yaffa Pennekamp & Cohen in Boca Raton, Fla., called the site "disgusting."
Yaffa said "it's a devious attempt to intimidate people from pursuing
their rights."
The registered operator of the Web site, Medico-Judicial Online Media, has
begun gathering data on Florida medical malpractice cases filed after July
4, said company spokesman Vishal Castun. The operators plan to make the
database available for free starting next July, and eventually hope to
publish a database covering medical malpractice cases across the United
States.
LitiPages.com is based on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Castun said the
offshore location will protect it against lawsuits. Castun declined to
identify the principals behind the project. The site says it is "an
information/news service written by journalists, not attorneys."
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