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...problems with her birth.) "All 12 jurors kept their eyes on Edwards during his entire speech," recalls Judge Robert Farmer, now retired, who presided over the case. "When they came back with a verdict, eight or nine of them were crying." But the jurors composed themselves sufficiently to award $25 million to the Lakey family--the largest judgment in North Carolina history...
Most such cases are undertaken on a contingency-fee basis--meaning the lawyers collect nothing if they lose but commonly take about one-third of the award if they win. From the moment Edwards emerged as a possible presidential contender, Republicans have tried to cast him as a millionaire ambulance chaser, the kind of man who forces doctors and businesses to pay ever higher liability-insurance costs, which are passed on to consumers. Edwards argues that he was defending the consumer and that high premiums have more to do with bad financial management at insurance companies. But the fight goes...
...jury award caught the attention of obstetricians everywhere. It and similar cases have contributed to the increased use of caesareans when a fetal-heart monitor indicates even minor signs of trouble. Today more than one-quarter of U.S. births are by C-section (up from 5% in 1970), though fear of malpractice suits is just one factor in the trend. Meanwhile, medical research has been challenging the conventional wisdom that birth trauma was the principal culprit in cerebral palsy. "There seems to be no scientific question that most of that injury [cerebral palsy] occurs prenatally and is not related...
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced they will jointly award the Harvard School of Public Health $7.8 million over the next five years to examine the effects of toxic mixed metals on children last week...
Valenti pointed to the success of the 1969 X-rated film Midnight Cowboy, which won the Academy Award for best picture, as evidence that perceptions about how much violence and sex should be shown on screen are always changing...