The Doctors Company Expands Legal Summit to Mid-Atlantic States
Ensuring the Industry’s Best Claims Defense for 5,000 Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Physicians
Napa, California—July 7, 2010—The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, kicked off its inaugural Mid-Atlantic Legal Summit on May 14 and 15.
Legal Summits are central to The Doctors Company’s mission to provide the industry’s most aggressive claims defense. As critical strategic exchanges bringing together top Mid-Atlantic legal teams with national legal leaders, the Summits elevate emerging local trends to the national level and expose legal teams throughout the U.S. to broad regional and national malpractice litigation trends. The exchange ensures that The Doctors Company’s legal defense of its member physicians is the industry’s most vigilant.
“The Doctors Company is fiercely committed to defending member physicians,” said David McHale, senior vice president and general counsel at The Doctors Company. “The Legal Summit demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing our physicians with a comprehensive defense that takes advantage of our understanding of issues both at a local and national level. It’s a perspective that belongs only to the Doctors Company.”
Top Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and District of Columbia legal teams met at the Mid-Atlantic Summit with national legal experts to review and discuss the emerging local and national litigation trends in patient safety, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, electronic discovery, emerging trial strategies, social networking, and the potential for juror misconduct.
Held throughout the country for the past five years, the Legal Summits inform local legal representation on national trends and fortify The Doctors Company’s robust understanding of local and regional legal developments. The remaining 2010 Summits will be held in the Midwest (Ohio), West Coast (California), and Southeast (Georgia).
About The Doctors Company
Founded by doctors for doctors in 1976, The Doctors Company (www.thedoctors.com) is relentlessly committed to advancing, protecting, and rewarding the practice of good medicine. The Doctors Company is the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability with 46,000 member physicians, $3 billion in assets, an A rating by Fitch Ratings, and an A- rating by A.M. Best Company.