PROFESSIONMalpractice awards hit the jury jackpotA tobacco case garnered the highest award last year, but three medical cases, all involving birth incidents, made the top 10.By Tanya Albert, AMNews staff. Feb. 3, 2003. Three medical malpractice verdicts against physicians -- all awarded by New York juries -- made the nation's Top 10 Highest Jury Award list for 2002. Medical malpractice cases have traditionally topped the annual list put together by Lawyers Weekly USA, a legal newspaper that tracks large verdicts. And this year, verdicts against physicians took the eighth, ninth and 10th spots on the list. "Medical malpractice cases are the only cases absent punitive damages to get up there," said lawyer Paul Martinek, Lawyers Weekly USA's publisher and editor in chief. "Usually it's the pain and suffering awards that push them up." In 2002, juries awarded:
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