BELLEVILLE — A former nurse practitioner claims the physicians practice she worked for fraudulently led her to believe that she was covered by malpractice insurance.
Kristi Arnolds, ANP, filed a complaint Nov. 30 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Thomas Prose, M.D., General Medicine PC., and Physician Malpractice Insurance Underwriters Inc., alleging breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation.
Arnolds, who was a licensed Advanced Nurse Practitioner, entered into an employment contract on March 13, 2007, with General Medicine PC, which was owned by Prose, according to the complaint. Arnolds alleges that the employment contract required General Medicine to insure her under malpractice insurance coverage. However, she was served with a summons in April 2016 for a malpractice case, and the defendants refused to provide a defense for her. She later resigned from the practice on Sept. 28, 2014.
Arnolds alleges Prose and General Medicine refused to provide her with a copy of the malpractice insurance policy and they never intended to purchase "proper insurance coverage." She claims the defendants "knowingly and intentionally" failed to tell her Physician Malpractice Insurance had no authority to do business in Illinois.
Arnolds seeks compensation and all other proper relief. She is represented by Ted Harvey and John Skrabacz of Freeark, Dennis, Murphy & Moskop PC in Belleville.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 20-L-0947