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August 5th, 2004 at 1:46 am

Illinois’s next U.S. senator

“Anyone who denies there?s a crisis with medical malpractice insurance is probably a trial lawyer” — Democratic candidate Barack Obama, considered a prohibitive favorite to win the vacant U.S. Senate seat in Illinois this November, quoted at Chicago Automobile Trade Association site, May 10 (via Ted in the comments section at Legal Underground).

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