Mr. Edwards was the lawyer in 8 of the state's 16 biggest medical malpractice verdicts and settlements that year.

It awarded the boy $10 million in a malpractice verdict against the Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the hospital.

A medical malpractice verdict of over $4 million established a new standard for nursing care in Utah.

This option would begin to reduce the chances of large malpractice verdicts, and supporters believe, also reduce rising medical costs.

It was one of the largest malpractice verdicts ever recorded against the corporation, which runs the city's hospitals.

A woman with AIDS and her sons have been awarded $750,000 by a jury in what lawyers described as the first medical malpractice verdict involving the disease.

At the same time, studies of these claims have found that there is no problem of increasing malpractice verdicts and insurance costs driving doctors out of business.

One thing that seemed to surprise analysts in today's report was that Tenet increased the amount it sets aside to pay malpractice verdicts.

The verdict is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in Sacramento County history.

Mr. Moran said his survey includes most, but not all, malpractice verdicts in the state.