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Updated: 3:10 PM Nov 25, 2008
Widow Settles Wrongful Death Suit Against VA
A Kentucky woman has agreed to take nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the U.S. government of negligence in her husband's death at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Marion.
Posted: 3:06 PM Nov 25, 2008 |
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A Kentucky woman has agreed to take nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the U.S. government of negligence in her husband's death at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Marion.
An attorney for Katrina Shank says she agreed to a $975,000 settlement in the August 2007 death of 50-year-old Robert Shank. He died a day after having gallbladder surgery.
Katrina Shank's lawsuit contends the government failed to sufficiently check the background of her husband's surgeon before hiring him in 2006.
Dr. Jose Veizaga-Mendez (vy-ZAH'-gah MEN'-dez) resigned three days after Robert Shank's death. Major surgeries have been halted at the Marion VA after investigators found several deaths linked to substandard care there.
Veizaga-Mendez wasn't a defendant in the lawsuit.
There's no public comment yet from the VA.
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