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Federal Court Awards $1,380,414.82 For VA Medical Malpractice Death

June 19, 2025

Federal Judge’s Findings Of Fact: On April 6, 2020, Roy Palmer drove to the Togus VA Medical Center (“Togus VA”) with complaints of abdominal pain in the epigastric/peri-umbilical region. He was admitted to the Togus VA that day. On April 6, 2020, at 3:40 PM, a Togus VA hospitalist entered[...]

Federal Court Awards Over $9M In VA Medical Malpractice Case For Injury To Bowel During Mesh Hernia Surgery

April 26, 2021

In its Memorandum And Order filed on March 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut determined that VA doctors negligently injured a patient during mesh hernia surgery and negligently failed to discover the injury during the surgery, awarding $3,270,278.22 in economi[...]

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 [...]

$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[...]

$2.5M Phoenix VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Prostate Cancer

March 16, 2017

On March 6, 2017, a federal judge awarded an 18-year Army veteran $2.5 million for the harm he suffered because the Phoenix VA Medical Center had failed to schedule an appointment for him for one year, and then when he was finally seen, it was a physician assistant who examined him and found that he[...]

Federal Judge Orders $21.4M Judgment In Favor Of The Plaintiff In VA Medical Malpractice Case

April 12, 2015

A federal judge in New Hampshire entered an order on April 3, 2015, finding in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in his Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States for the negligent medical care he received at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, New Ham[...]

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