1.   Although Stanfill also took legal action against the Dolphins after retiring, malpractice lawsuits in sports are relatively rare, considering the staggering number of injuries that athletes incur.

2.   -- The justices turned away a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that gives doctors and hospitals special protection against malpractice lawsuits when they care for mentally ill patients.

3.   A Massachusetts couple has filed a malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Peter Levine, chief executive of Memorial Health Systems in Worcester, Mass.

4.   A second loophole, according to Warren, would require that malpractice lawsuits against accountants or lawyers be heard by a bankruptcy judge rather than a jury.

5.   But it would keep the present federal bar against most state-court medical malpractice lawsuits against managed care providers.

6.   Compared with the estimated half-million medical malpractice lawsuits pending in the United States, the numbers in Japan are miniscule, but they are growing.

7.   Cronin refuses to talk much about the hernia surgery itself, citing a malpractice lawsuit he has filed against doctors at Family Healthcare Medical Group and Simi Valley Hospital.

8.   Doctors have always faced the possibility of malpractice lawsuits and financial payouts.

9.   Doctors have long sought limits on damages in malpractice lawsuits, and the House bill would establish them.

10.   Doctors susceptible to malpractice lawsuits, take heed and see your attorney.