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A Philadelphia judge has urged the Pennsylvania Superior Court to uphold a $124.2 million medical malpractice judgment arising from a birth injury, rejecting challenges to the jury’s causation finding, its $106.1 million future-care award and its decision to hold a hospital vicariously liable even though two individually named obstetricians were cleared of negligence. The latter ...

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