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Federal District Court Allows Some Of Pro Se Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Claims Against VA

December 6, 2024

On April 4, 2022, Plaintiff filed a personal injury claim with the VA by completing a Standard Form 95 (“SF-95”). Plaintiff sought $500,000 in damages for personal injury – specifically, his acute kidney injury (“AKI”) – resulting from the purported failure of medical professiona[...]

VA Agrees To Pay $2.75M To Settle Botched Ankle Surgery Leading To Leg Amputation

June 14, 2021

The U. S. Government has agreed to settle the medical malpractice claim of a 58-year-old Ohio man involving the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. The federal medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that in February 2015 the man was experiencing left ankle pain that caused instability in the ankle and pro[...]

Kansas VA Seeks To Fire Urologist Accused Of Harming Patients While In Private Practice

January 24, 2020

The VA hospital in Wichita, Kansas is seeking to terminate a urologist on its staff after it became aware through a news story in a local newspaper in September 2019 that the 44-year-old urologist was reportedly disciplined by the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts (“BoardR[...]

$2M VA Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed Diagnosis Of Tongue Cancer

July 24, 2019

The widow of a 69-year-old veteran who died in 2017 after the VA negligently delayed diagnosis of his tongue cancer for about 20 months, during which time the cancer spread and became terminal, will receive $2 million from the federal government in settlement of her wrongful death lawsuit. The settl[...]

VA Settles Overdose Medical Malpractice Death Claim For $2.3M

December 5, 2017

A federal judge has approved the $2.3 million medical malpractice wrongful death settlement involving the Tomah VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin. The victim, a Marine Corps veteran, died on August 30, 2014 after he was administered sixteen different opiates in addition to other sedating medicat[...]

Amputated Leg May Be Best Evidence Establishing VA Medical Negligence

January 23, 2017

A 46-year-old man’s amputated leg, which he had donated to a non-profit organization for canine search and rescue training a year-and-a-half earlier, was retrieved by the man’s VA medical malpractice lawyer in July 2016 and may be the best evidence that medical negligence at the VA Puget[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules Veteran Injured At VA Medical Center Not Required To Obtain Future Care From The VA

April 20, 2016

In its decision filed on March 4, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Appellate Court”) ruled that an injured veteran who was rendered a quadriplegic as a result of medical negligence at a VA Medical Center should not be required to obtain future medical car[...]

Did 307,000 Veterans Die While Waiting For Enrollment In VA Health Care Benefits?

September 10, 2015

In a scathing report released on September 2, 2015 by the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) entitled, “Veterans Health Administration Review of Alleged Mismanagement at the Health Eligibility Center,” the OIG reported that, “As of September 2014, more than 307,000 pending ES [...]

Phoenix VA Medical Center Sued For Cancer Misdiagnosis Leading To Suicide

May 18, 2015

A federal medical malpractice wrongful death case involving the Phoenix VA Medical Center was filed on April 30, 2015 by the widow of an Army veteran who committed suicide three days after being advised that his colon cancer had metastasized to his lungs and that his condition was terminal. The da[...]

Pittsburgh VA Hospital Settles Legionnaires’ Disease Medical Malpractice Death Case

July 1, 2014

On June 3, 2014, a federal judge approved the settlement of a medical malpractice/wrongful death claim filed by the survivors of a man who contracted Legionnaires’ disease while a patient at the Pittsburgh VA hospital. The 83-year-old Navy veteran was being treated for a urinary tract infectio[...]

An Analysis Of Medical Malpractice Cases Filed Against Georgia’s Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center

December 17, 2013

The Augusta Chronicle recently published the results of its investigation into medical malpractice cases filed in the U.S. District Court in Augusta, Georgia, involving the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta. Its analysis of court records revealed that at least nine medical malpractice[...]

VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Claim Settled For $500,000

January 8, 2013

The VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio has agreed to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a widow for the death of her husband as a result of alleged medical malpractice for $500,000, which has been approved by a federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio. The medical malpr[...]

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