Sentences with phrase «malpractice injuries annually»

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Silver also opposed curtailing medical malpractice awards, which add hundreds of millions of dollars to medical costs annually, but insisted his position had nothing to do with his work for Weitz & Luxenberg, the huge personal - injury law firm.

Supreme Court justices serve 14 - year terms, are paid $ 136,700 annually and preside over trial courts handling civil cases, such as negligence, personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability.

A report by the Institute of Medicine estimates that between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths and up to 1 million injuries occur annually as a result of medical malpractice in the U.S., indicating that the fears of these medical patients are often quite valid.

The incidence of birth injury and medical malpractice claims continues to rise every year, with over 65,000 medical malpractice claims filed annually.