A single word of testimony at a medical-malpractice trial has cost a Pennsylvania lawyer a nearly $1 million fine she says threatens her home, her family and her small law firm. Insurance defense attorney Nancy Raynor says her assets have been frozen and a lien put on her home because her witness had a slip of the tongue during a 2012 trial. A Philadelphia judge had ruled that jurors were not to hear that a deceased lung-cancer patient had been a smoker. Two weeks into the trial, Raynor asked her expert witness about the patient's cardiac-risk factors. "The patient was a smoker. The patient was hypertensive. So yes, I mean, those are big risk...
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