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Kentucky Jury Awards $2.5 Million

A Kentucky jury awarded a married couple $2.5 million dollars when their medical malpractice lawsuit went to verdict last week. In 2001, Sophia Savage underwent a hysterectomy at a Kentucky hospital.  During the surgery her doctors left behind a sponge which was not discovered until 2005.  Doctors discovered the sponge…

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Further Evidence That Tort Reform Does Not Work

Here in Illinois the legislature passed the Medical Malpractice Reform Act of 2005.  The MMRA caps damages and contains other relief that benefits nobody but the state’s insurance companies. In neighboring Indiana they have tort reform also.  Claimants are required to present their cases to a medical review board composed of…

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