A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to pay more than $226,000 in damages to a man who was injured in a crash with a mail truck.

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A federal judge in Kansas City has awarded a New Mexico woman nearly $95,000, finding the U.S. government liable for conversion after it seized 364,000 $1 presidential coins from her as part of a criminal investigation and failed to return ...

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A federal judge has awarded a Cape Girardeau couple $5.7 million in damages after finding that the federal government, through the Department of Veterans Affairs, was negligent in failing to timely diagnose a man’s prostate cancer. On Dec. 30, U.S. ...

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The U.S. government has agreed to pay $6.97 million to settle claims from 82 people who accused a former physician assistant at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas of sexually abusing them. Dan Curry of Brown & Curry in Kansas ...

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Where appellant challenged the district court’s finding that her claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act was time-barred, the court properly found that the action was untimely, and she did not present evidence to show fraudulent concealment or incapacity to ...

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An infant injured at birth at a federally funded health care facility in Illinois reached a $1 million settlement with the U.S. government, according to his attorneys. Rachel Roman and David Zevan of Zevan Davidson Roman in St. Louis said ...

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Where a man, who was severely injured while working in a gravel mine, sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging that his injuries were caused in part by a federal mine inspector’s inadequate inspection, the discretionary-function ...

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A federal appeals court has partially revived a lawsuit a Clarksdale man filed against the federal government following a mine accident that left the man quadriplegic.

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A Camdenton couple has reached a $5.1 million settlement in their case against the U.S. government for a birth injury that occurred at a federally funded clinic. The couple, Jamie and Nathan Searcy, filed suit in 2016 in the U.S. ...

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Plaintiffs appealed from the dismissal of their action brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1346(b) and the Federal Tort Claims Act against three agencies within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Plaintiffs further appealed from the district court judge’s denial of their ...

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Silva v. U.S. (MLW No. 70861/Case No. 16-1870 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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