Birmingham Injury Blog

The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog has posted an article that discusses how defense doctors may be an unreliable source and give biased information in court.

Defense doctors are often paid handsomely by insurance companies and/or defense lawyers to side with them. This article suggests using a subpoena to obtain the doctor's tax records of the past year and see how much he was previously paid for his testimony.

The doctors do not like this very much. Usually the response we receive is a Motion for Protective order from the doctor’s attorney asking that the records not be produced. If the court orders that the financial records be produced, usually that is the last you see of the DME doctor. Doctors will generally refuse to testify before producing these records.

The doctor's refusal to testify validates the assumption that his opinions are probably being swayed in the form of a check.