NU Online News Service, Oct. 20, 3:18 p.m.EDT

Reversing a downward trend, the frequency of medical malpracticeclaims against hospitals is rising, an insurance brokerage and riskmanagement group has found.

The information, that claims are expected to continue increasingat a one percent annual rate, after a decade of decrease, wascontained in a report released today by Aon Corporation and theAmerican Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).

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