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Federal Judge Nearly Doubles His Prior Award For VA Medical Negligence Resulting In Veteran’s Death

April 19, 2021

During the Summer of 2020, U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny had awarded $2.1 million in a federal medical malpractice lawsuit involving the Buffalo VA Medical Center, for the death of 64-year-old Howard Southard, who was a veteran of the United States Army. The Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit [...]

Brian Tally VA Employment Transparency Act

February 21, 2021

The Brian Tally VA Employment Transparency Act (“Act”) was signed into law on January 5, 2021. The Act provides that any veteran or family member who has filed a claim against the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) for damage, injury, or death is entitled to r[...]

$1.95M Medical Malpractice Verdict Involving Buffalo VA Medical Center For Failure To Diagnosis Throat Cancer

January 23, 2021

On December 28, 2020, a federal judge ruled against the U.S. and in favor of a 76-year-old former Marine who had served in Vietnam in his medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a CT scan of his neck performed at the Buffalo VA Medical Center in September 2013 was misread as normal and the rad[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of VA Medical Malpractice Action Decided Prior To Precedential Ruling

October 26, 2020

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion filed on August 26, 2020, affirmed the dismissal of a medical malpractice wrongful death case involving the Veteran’s Administration filed pursuant to the Federal Tort C[...]

Former VA Medical Center Nursing Assistant Admits She Murdered Seven Veterans Under Her Care

August 18, 2020

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia, in a press release dated July 14, 2020, announced that a former nursing assistant at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (“VAMC”) in Clarksburg, West Virginia had pleaded guilty in federal court to murder and assaul[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Official Review Finds Military Health Care Only “Average”

October 15, 2014

It was announced on October 1, 2014 that U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s 90-day review of the military health system found that it was comparable in access, quality and safety to care offered on average in the private sector. However, Secretary Hagel said “average” was not g[...]

VA Medical Malpractice Statistics

August 18, 2014

The Veterans Health Administration is one of the largest health care providers in the United States, providing care to more than 8.6 million of the 22 million veterans through 152 VA hospitals and 817 community-based outpatient clinics (as of March 30, 2012). The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs[...]

VA Health Care Scandal: What Other Issues Plague The VA?

June 4, 2014

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has come under recent but prolonged fire for the manner in which the VA handles the scheduling of veterans’ medical appointments and how the VA falsely reported the amount of time it took for veterans to receive medical services through the VA healt[...]

Lawyers Stand Ready To Help VA Medical Malpractice Victims

May 23, 2014

We at medicalmalpracticelawyers.com have made extensive efforts in light of the recent scandals involving VA medical facilities to find lawyers in all U.S. states who stand ready to assist veterans and their dependents who have been injured (or worse) as a result of VA medical malpractice. Just two [...]

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