1.   There is no damned end to the money it costs to take depositions in a malpractice case.

2.   Timely and objective studies of medical malpractice cases are rare.

3.   And the federal law that has long protected many managed-care companies is being whittled away in a series of judicial decisions in malpractice cases.

4.   And the federal law that has long protected many managed care companies is being whittled away in a series of court decisions in various malpractice cases.

5.   And, despite the furor surrounding the Lewis lawsuit, both lawyers say they will approach it the same way as any other malpractice case.

6.   Another would limit the size of court awards in medical malpractice cases.

7.   Another would limit damage awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases.

8.   At a minimum, they want the profiles to include a telephone number where consumers can call to get the docket numbers of malpractice cases.

9.   At least two of the dozen people who filed malpractice cases against the hospital in the past several years have received death threats.

10.   At midmorning, the jury comes back with a not-guilty verdict in a medical malpractice case.