
As any regular reader of this blog knows, large medical malpractice verdicts are made to be reversed or reduced. The big verdicts get lots of attention in the press and lead many doctors and their insurance companies to claim the sky is falling. Then, after the press has left and the attention of the public is focused elsewhere, the large verdict is either reduced by the trial judge or overturned on appeal. This was exactly what recently happened to the largest malpractice verdict ever in Iowa. The state supreme court reversed it and sent it back for a new trial.
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