Burr, Ballantine support malpractice lawsuit caps
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Republican senatorial candidate Richard Burr on Monday warned voters that if what he calls a &quot;medical liability&quot; isn&#39;t reformed now, patients will pay the ultimate cost later.
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ROME, Ga. Aug. 26, 2004 - An $80 million settlement was reached Thursday in a lawsuit against a crematory operator by nearly 1,700 relatives of deceased people whose bodies were found strewn across the business&#39; grounds.
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An Oklahoma lawsuit filed on Thursday charges that Merck &amp; Co. misled patients about the safety of its arthritis drug. The case may signal many more such lawsuits against the drugmaker
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Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to pay $10 million to the state to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin in West Virginia.
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By Associated Press  JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick.
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A Martin County man is suing the maker of the prescription drug Vioxx and the Walgreens Corporation. Mark Tomlin alleges he had a heart attack after taking the drug to relieve pain from arthritis.
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Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Roche Holding lost the first of 400 lawsuits claiming its Accutane acne drug causes inflammatory bowel disease when a jury awarded an Alabama man $2.62 million.
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Rivaling Bush vs. Kerry for bitterness, doctors and trial lawyers are squaring off this fall in an unprecedented four-state struggle over limiting malpractice awards...
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DANVILLE, Pa. - A woman is suing a doctor who operated on her, accusing him of leaving a 4-inch metal instrument inside her uterus.  In her lawsuit, Lori Klinger, 35, said she experienced severe pain after Dr.
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TOPEKA, Kan. -- The attorney general&#39;s office announced a settlement with a Florida company that was sued for allegedly overinflating the price of flu vaccine.
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DENVER Indianapolis-based Guidant Corporation says it has won the right to a new trial in its lawsuit seeking up to 140 (m) million dollars in damages from another maker of implantable defibrillators.
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Sacramento -- More than a year and a half after a state watchdog agency warned a Vacaville prison that it was susceptible to litigation because of its dental practices, the family of an inmate who died after having a tooth pulled has sued the state.
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It's a lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits.
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John Ritterâs family has filed a wrongful death suit against the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. The suit from Ritterâs wife, Amy Yasbeck, and his four children, alleges that
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New York and Connecticut officials say they are investigating whether improper behavior by insurance firms has been a factor in the rapidly rising cost of malpractice insurance for lawyers and doctors.
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The D.C. attorney general filed a lawsuit yesterday against Metropolitan Money Store Corp., hoping to recover lost home equity and prevent foreclosure for city residents who dealt with the Prince George's County-based mortgage company.