STATE OF ILLINOIS'S DATABASE ON DOCTORS' MALPRACTICE CLAIMS TAKEN OFFLINE
August 23, 2010, by Jeffrey J. Kroll
As medical malpractice attorneys in Chicago, my firm supports the return of the State of Illinois's online database providing patients with information on their physician's criminal background and medical malpractice history. The State of Illinois previously provided an online resource identifying whether a doctor was convicted of a crime, fired by a hospital or forced to make a medical malpractice payment within the previous five years. The State's Department of Financial and Professional Regulation removed the physician profiles from its website. The only information available now is whether the doctor's have been disciplined by the the department.
