Legal Opinion
Mitchell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 26, 1998No. 96-2216, 97-1442, 96-2217PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
Alfred J. Hassey died on June 3, 1990, from a stroke he had suffered soon after undergoing a colonoscopy at the West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital. His daughter, Jean Mitchell, as Administratrix of his estate, filed this wrongful death action on behalf of her mother, siblings, and herself against his treating physicians, Drs. Carl Berg and Marc Silver, as well as against the United States of America, the owner of the Hospital. After dismissing the claims against the individual defendants and holding a bench trial on the remaining claims, the trial judge found…
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