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* Punitive damages, estimated at $1.2 billion, were awarded to 6%
of plaintiff winners in trials. The median punitive damage award
was $50,000.
* Plaintiffs prevailed in about a fourth (27%) of medical
malpractice trials. Half of the 311 plaintiffs who successfully
litigated a medical malpractice claim won at least $422,000, and
in nearly a third of these cases, the award was $1 million or
more.
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