I haven’t crunched the numbers and am not in the medical field but I do have professional experience with the legal system here and know the dockets extremely well. In my experience there are not that many medical malpractice suits in CT. Unless there has been some weird recent uptick, it’s a pretty reasonable number.

What’s super common, like everywhere, are auto accident/personal injury cases, divorces, breach of contract in various forms. Trying to think of what else. But med mal, no, and further, I have to say, the med mal we do have tends to be high quality cases - the firms bringing them are mostly very well qualified. They do their homework before taking and filing a case. They are few but strong, researched prima facie cases and accompanied by affidavits from medical people, which I think are required in initial filings to prevent abuse.

Are you sure your sources are correct about CT? I think you may have the wrong state.