(Radio Iowa) – A lawsuit is claiming an insurance company involved in a 97-million dollar medical malpractice judgement used the record-setting verdict as propaganda to persuade Iowa lawmakers to enact tort reform. The lawsuit suggests the family involved was willing to settle the case out of court for an amount covered by the company’s medical malpractice insurance policy.

The lawsuit was filed by three doctors who own an O-B-G-YN clinic in Coralville. It accuses a Minnesota insurance company of acting in bad faith and trying to force the clinic to declare bankruptcy.