1.   And what began as a simple malpractice claim has grown into the first direct challenge to managed care to be accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

2.   As a state worker settling medical malpractice claims, Maria-Kelly Yniguez often drafted documents in Spanish.

3.   At the time the Arizona law went into effect, Maria-Kelly Yniguez was a state employee who processed medical malpractice claims.

4.   After the amendment was adopted by Arizona voters, it was challenged by a state clerk, Maria-Kelly F. Yniguez, who evaluated medical malpractice claims.

5.   But Hern, who wrote the most widely used textbook on abortion, supports many malpractice claims.

6.   But doctors are often reluctant to do so for fear of malpractice claims.

7.   Civilian doctors are reported to the registry whenever malpractice claims against them are paid.

8.   Dayton Daily News articles on military medical care last year described cases in which civilians whose malpractice claims were denied were barred from appealing to the courts.

9.   He said this was done to protect the church group from possible medical malpractice claims.

10.   Legal malpractice claims are often difficult to prove.