I thought I read somewhere that Edward's lawsuits resulted in a product or procedure being taken off the table resulting in an increased number of infant (or children's) deaths.
To say nothing of the cost of malpractice insurance being so high that OB/GYN docs have retired from practice.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200401%5CPOL20040120a.html
I think it just ran up the liability insurance costs for all the ob/gyns like OF said.
Yep, and the OB/GYNs started leaving NC because of the malpractice costs...