June 27, 2024
The Fourth Circuit declined to revive a North Carolina woman's lawsuit over a U.S. Navy hospital allegedly misdiagnosing her kidney failure and causing her to contract gangrene and require multiple amputations, standing by a lower court's ruling that her suit was filed too late under a state-level statute.
October 30, 2023
The U.S. government urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive a woman's lawsuit alleging she contracted gangrene after a naval hospital misdiagnosed her kidney failure, arguing the Federal Tort Claims Act doesn't let her get around state law time limits on filing the suit.
September 28, 2023
A patient of a Navy hospital asked the Fourth Circuit to revive her lawsuit alleging a misdiagnosis led to amputations, arguing that a slow federal administrative claims process shouldn't be able to run out the clock on her ability to file a complaint.