Legal Opinion
Estate of Ira J. Sanders v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 21, 2013No. 12-60901PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge.
Ira J. Sanders (“Sanders”), who received medical treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, died of stomach cancer in 2008. Sanders’s estate (“the Estate”) filed a malpractice suit against his health care providers under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), alleging in part that they failed to provide appropriate follow-up care after discovering a mass in Sanders’s stomach in 2003. The district court granted summary judgment for the United States based on its finding that the Estate’s expert report failed to establish the relevant standard of care or create a…
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