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Originally Posted by ERCougar
The pressure to settle NEVER comes from a doctor. Any lawsuit settled makes your malpractice insurance more expensive. The commonest complaint in this arena is that the insurer was not willing to fight your case.
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This is amusing becasue it is so wildly incorrect. DO you think that insurance companies rush to throw money at plaintffs becaseu they are nice guys? The reason carriers beahve this way is becasue if they do not protect doctors (their insureds) they will be sued for bad faith. Indeed, the fact of large bad faith verdicts against carriers that failed to settle within limits when they had a chance to do so is exactly why they choose to settle now. In the case of medmal claims, can you venture a guess who it was that sued the carrier for bad faith? Here is a clue: it wasn't the injured party.