Maloney's first multimillion-dollar verdict came against Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 1976 and 1977.

The next year, Maloney won four more multimillion-dollar verdicts.

By 1993, when Mr. Edwards opened his own law firm, multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements had become routine.

If Mr. Bush prevails, it would be more difficult for consumers here to win multimillion-dollar verdicts against health insurers.

People who do not have cancer, or even serious asbestosis, have won multimillion-dollar verdicts in the last year in Mississippi and Texas.

Fines and Imprisonment Some cases have yielded multimillion-dollar verdicts for the women; a few have sent parents to prison.

The decision was a defeat for the insurance industry which had hoped to halt the number of multimillion-dollar verdicts.

The man, who was on a respirator, died when the family could not afford nursing care because the appeal delayed the multimillion-dollar verdict.

He has acquired a taste for multimillion-dollar verdicts.

Mr. Margolick has a point about those rare cases of catastrophic injury that result in multimillion-dollar verdicts.