Protecting Patients

Medical Malpractice

Patients across the country are fighting for the right to take an incompetent doctor, or a negligent hospital, to court when they’re injured by medical mistakes.

Watch their stories at our dedicated site – JusticeForPatients.org

Insurance companies, hospitals and doctors spend millions of dollars lobbying to limit their accountability for negligence and medical errors.

They claim that lawsuits by injured patients drive up doctors' medical malpractice insurance premiums, and that only limiting patients' rights will keep them under control. We know that greedy insurers - NOT injured patients seeking justice - are to blame for driving up the cost of medical malpractice insurance.

Consumer Watchdog fights to protect your right to hold medical providers accountable for their mistakes.

  • Read the report: We prove that insurance reform and strong regulation is the best way to keep medical malpractice insurance premiums under control.

  • Count the savings: Consumer Watchdog saved doctors $66 million by blocking unjustified malpractice insurance rate increases in California

  • Comb through the smoking gun documents: Even the insurance industry admits that limiting patient rights doesn’t lower insurance premiums
Have you been affected by medical malpractice, negligence or mistreatment at the hands of a healthcare provider? Please tell us your story.

Recent Articles:

Dawn Rich, Healdsburg CA

As told by Dawn Rich
September 12, 2008

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Dawn Marie Esposito, Fairfield NJ

Consumer Watchdog
August 22, 2008

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Dunn Defends Plan for Doctors in Rehab

By Brian Joseph, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
January 25, 2008

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Malpractice Law May Deny Justice

By Daniel Costello, LOS ANGELES TIMES
December 29, 2007

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WellPoint Doctors To Get Zagat Ratings

By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
October 22, 2007

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Recent Posts in Protecting Patients:

AARP's idea of health insurance is junk

It wasn't a big shock to me when AARP announced that it would be "investigating" deceptively marketed health insurance carrying the AARP brand, in response to a U.S. Senate investigation. AARP may technically be a nonprofit, but it also aggressively and profitably markets commercial services that appear at first to be an AARP benefit. AARP's "insurance,", from partner company United Health, is just a capped flat payment for certain medical services. Anyone who fell seriously ill wouldn't be "covered" and could be left deeply in medical debt. So why should we trust AARP's self-proclaimed role in national health reform?

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Another huge medical data breach is mishandled

Both president-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain backed electronic medical records during their campaign. Computerizing patient data, which could increase efficiency and cut costs, is part of every major federal health reform...

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Poor reporting, disclosure of medical malpractice in California

I haven’t yet had a chance to read the whole report, but a good executive summary from the California Research Bureau says a lot about the state of physician discipline, medical malpractice...

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Massachusetts enrollment numbers dropping?

Here's another interesting piece of information about the health insurance mandate out of Massachusetts. New enrollment numbers for the state-subsidized Commenwealth Care health plans show that the number of people enrolled fell from July to September to a level lower than the six months preceeding...

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Cost of care still #1 concern for Mass. residents

A new survey out of Massachusetts questions whether the newly insured under that state’s mandatory health insurance law are really protected.

According to a new poll, the cost of health coverage is still a major concern for patients...

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Hospitals Overcharging Individuals and Insurers

MICRA Victim Steven Olsen

Some victims of medical malpractice fall through the cracks...