Court says New Jersey can go public with malpractice data
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, June 16, 2004
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A court decision will allow the state of New Jersey to make medical malpractice data for physicians and podiatrists available to the public on the Internet and by a toll-free telephone line.
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey upheld the constitutionality of a state statute that requires the malpractice data be made public. The Medical Society of New Jersey had gone to court to try to block publication of medical malpractice claim settlements arguing it would void confidentiality provisions of existing settlement contracts. The court ruled that nothing in federal law or the Constitution bars the release of information on medical malpractice payments submitted to the state by malpractice insurers to comply with state law.
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