Judge awards $3.5 million in woman's foot-pain suit - roanoke.com

The verdict's total is more than double the state's cap on medical malpractice awards. A Roanoke jury has awarded a $3.5 million verdict to a Clifton Forge woman who sued her podiatrist over a 2003 surgery that she says caused incurable chronic pain and led to the amputation of the front of her right foot.

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GOP plan limits malpractice damages

DES MOINES, IA - Republican legislative leaders introduced a bill Tuesday that would slap a $500,000 limit on punitive damages assessed in medical malpractice lawsuits.

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William Gallion: Jailed lawyer

The Lexington lawyer built a practice defending the University of Kentucky hospital in malpractice cases before getting involved in the fen-phen litigation.

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