41.   No one seems to know for certain how many legal malpractice suits there are nationally, but there is agreement in the profession that they are on the rise.

42.   Of the eight complaints reviewed by the board Wednesday, five involve RK surgeries that also are the subject of malpractice suits.

43.   Occasionally, misinformation on death certificates has led to malpractice suits.

44.   On appeal, Allen argued that the law unfairly discriminates against the mentally ill by setting up tough legal hurdles for malpractice suit, without sufficient justification.

45.   One woman was researching a medical malpractice suit for a lawyer and met a man in a library researching Jews on the hospital staff.

46.   Only a trickle of the thousands of medical malpractice suits filed each year ever reach a jury.

47.   One amendment is being pushed in ads by the American Medical Association, which wants limits on damages on medical malpractice suits.

48.   Punitive damages are usually used to punish outrageous behavior, like sexual abuse or performing surgery while intoxicated, and they are extremely rare in medical malpractice suits.

49.   Republicans also have long sought to limit damages in malpractice suits.

50.   Sens. Kassebaum and Kennedy have said they will resist all amendments to their bill, which does not deal with either medical savings accounts or malpractice suits.