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Federal Appellate Court Holds EMS Transport Without Consent Is Medical Malpractice Claim

June 9, 2024

Thomas Sutton sought damages from Fayette EMS for allegedly falsely imprisoning, and assaulting and battering him while transporting him from a local clinic where he sought medical care to a nearby hospital for higher level care. Background Facts In March 2022, Sutton, who is a disabled veteran with[...]

$1 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement For Radiologist Who Missed Breast Cancer

June 11, 2023

$1 Million Settlement For Radiologist Who Missed Breast Cancer: A federal medical malpractice lawsuit alleging the delayed diagnosis of a woman’s invasive breast cancer by a Veterans Affairs radiologist filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Di[...]

Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Involving Department of Veterans Affairs Ends In Defense Verdict

October 11, 2018

On September 10, 2018, a federal judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri found in favor of the defendant, The United States, in a federal tort claim action involving the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The plaintiff had alleged in his Federal Tort Claims[...]

OIG Report Slams VA Medical Center In D.C.

March 25, 2018

The Department of Veteran Affairs Office of Inspector General issued a report on March 7, 2018 entitled, “Critical Deficiencies at the Washington DC VA Medical Center” (“Report”) in which it found “widespread and formidable inadequacies in many essential functions at th[...]

Medical Malpractice Payments To Veterans Hit 12-Year High

September 16, 2013

Medical malpractice payments to veterans made on behalf of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) totaled $91.7 million in 2012 (an increase of 28% from 2011, when the VA paid approximately $72 million in medical malpractice payments), which was the highest amount in 12 years. F[...]

$346,272 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Death

August 31, 2013

On August 28, 2013, a federal judge in Baltimore, Maryland awarded $346,272 to the family of a veteran who died on October 11, 2007 as a result of medical malpractice at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore. The 59-year-old veteran had been discharged to home from the VA Medical[...]

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