Vanhoy v. United States

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

The government appeals the district court’s ruling requiring it to make an immediate lump-sum payment of future medical care damages to Plaintiff-Appel-lee Teddy J. Vanhoy in this Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) action. The government reurges its contention that the district court should create a reversionary trust into which the government could deposit the amount of the award and from which Mr. Vanhoy’s future medical care damages would be distributed on an as-incurred basis, with any balance remaining in the trust at Mr. Vanhoy’s death reverting to the government.…