United States Settles Medical Malpractice Claim with Vietnam ...

United States Settles Medical Malpractice Claim with Vietnam Veteran for $12 Million. Chicago - December 2, 2013

Vietnam veteran wins twelve million dollars in medical malpractice ...

A Vietnam veteran and Chicago-area resident will receive a $12 million settlement from the federal government in a medical malpractice case.

Vietnam Veteran Receives $12 Million Malpractice Settlement from ...

John Johnson served in combat in the US Army during the Vietnam War in 1970-71. In 2007, he was admitted to the Hines VA Hospital, ...

Vietnam Vet Wins $12 Million Malpractice Settlement From VA ...

A Chicago-area Vietnam veteran will get a $12 million medical malpractice settlement from the federal government.

Agent Orange Settlement Fund - Compensation

Of the 105,000 claims received by the Payment Program, approximately 52,000 Vietnam Veterans or their survivors received cash payments which averaged about ...

Medical Malpractice Story: Michael L. Kelly | centerjd.org

58-year-old Michael L. Kelly, a highly-decorated Vietnam War veteran, died from a stroke in Utah after the on-call doctor at a newly-opened area hospital ...

Medical Malpractice & Negligence Case Results

Attorneys, Timothy Richardson and Daniel O'Brien, secured a $2,400,000 settlement against a suburban hospital for the death of a 52-year-old unmarried retired ...

Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Malpractice Attorneys

When filing suit against the United States for injuries from medical malpractice ... The VA settled his case pre-suit for $800,000. Vietnam War Veteran. A ...

Army hospital settles $9.5M malpractice lawsuit after patient's death

Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, has settled a medical malpractice suit involving a failed gastric bypass surgery for $9.5 million.

Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange win $180 million ...

A class-action lawsuit was filed in 1979 on behalf of 2.4 million veterans exposed to Agent Orange, culminating in a surprise settlement five ...

Class Actions - NVLSP - National Veterans Legal Services Program

On November 5, 2020 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of thousands of so-called Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans ...

State settles lawsuit over COVID-19 death in Truth or Consequences ...

Sep. 28—The wife of a Vietnam War veteran who died after contracting COVID-19 at the problem-plagued New Mexico State Veterans' Home in ...

CLASS SETTLEMENT – Texas Injury Law

Many Vietnam War veterans suffer from devastating illnesses caused by their exposure to Agent Orange and we are gratified that the U.S. Supreme Court has ...

Family of Deceased Veteran Settles 2014 Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

The lawsuit claims that the Backus Hospital staff overlooked the fact that Wheelis, a veteran of the Vietnam War, was already on blood thinners and that the ...

Vietnam War-Era Vet's Malpractice Claims Against VA Tossed

A Vietnam War-era veteran can't proceed with medical malpractice claims ... U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said March 7. Bray had ...

In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation (1979-1984)

In the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US ...

Pentagon raises cap on military medical malpractice claims

Until 2021, troops and veterans were forbidden from suing DoD for any injuries or illness sustained while serving. RELATED. Members of the U.S. ...

Agent Orange, the Next Generation; In Vietnam and America, Some ...

Vietnamese living in Vietnam and US and American veterans of Vietnam War are pursuing new claims against companies that supplied US military ...

The High Costs of Language Barriers in Medical Malpractice

The case settled, and the Carrier paid legal fees of $27,000 in defense of the oncologist and $105,000 to the patient. In the Jimenez case, the Spanish-speaking ...

Medical Malpractice Verdicts & Settlements | Levin & Perconti

settlement for the family of a newborn boy who died as a result of medical malpractice during birth. In the face of fetal distress, the attending physician ...