October 04, 2019
A man who said he was sexually abused on multiple occasions by a former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs physician's assistant asked a Kansas federal court to dismiss his lawsuit Friday after he and the government quietly reached a settlement on his negligence claims.
February 16, 2017
A Kansas federal judge on Wednesday rejected the federal government's assertion of sovereign immunity in a suit accusing a former Veterans Affairs physician's assistant of sexual assault, saying it was too early to rule on whether the man was acting in a medical capacity during the alleged assaults.
February 09, 2017
A Kansas federal judge on Tuesday consolidated 15 similar suits, all accusing a former physician's assistant at two U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals of sexual assault during medical examinations, ruling that combining the cases would speed discovery and allowed the veterans to depose their alleged assailant.