"In the decade that followed, Mr. Edwards filed at least 20 similar lawsuits against doctors and hospitals in deliveries gone wrong, winning verdicts and settlements of more than $60 million, typically keeping about a third. As a politician he has spoken of these lawsuits with pride."
He is a rich trial lawyer.
"Edwards, a U.S. senator from North Carolina who was selected today by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to be his running mate, is now worth between $19 million and $70 million after a 20-year career as a lawyer, according to financial-disclosure documents filed with the Senate. Yet the Kerry campaign is counting on the connection Edwards makes with ordinary voters as the son of mill workers who struggled to put him through college. "
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Richards got millions for suing a doctor claiming the doctor did not perform a C-section soon enough.
Had the doctor, instead, turned the baby around in the womb and jabbed its brains out...
Edwards would have been just fine with that.