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Seeking Disability After Losing a Medical License

By Janice G. Inman
February 28, 2011

A medical practitioner who loses his or her license to practice loses not only a career, but also the income that came from it. The chances of obtaining a license in another state (despite some notorious publicity to the contrary) can be very problematic. What state's licensing board will welcome the doctor whose license was revoked due to egregious medical malpractice? The financial consequences of the loss can be devastating, and alternative sources of income may be hard to pin down.

For some physicians in this position there may be an alternative to financial ruin. If the doctor carried disability insurance and can show that the malpractice that led to the loss of the license resulted from a mental or physical impairment, he or she may be able to collect payments from the insurer.

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