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Navy Veteran Wins Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Veterans? Affairs Hospital for Malpractice

By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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A US Navy veteran has won his medical malpractice lawsuit against a Veterans? Affairs hospital doctor after a series of failed operations left him permanently disabled, receiving a verdict of $622,739. The man, who retired from Chicago-based Smurfit-Stone Container Corp in 2001, brought his medical malpractice lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The man originally entered the VA hospital for a hernia operation during which the doctors mistakenly severed an artery in his stomach, leading to 6 additional surgeries, a staph infection, and pneumonia.

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Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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