Legal Opinion
Wozniak v. United States
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 9, 1988No. Civ. A. 88-0572-YPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, District Judge.
The plaintiff Mary J. Wozniak has brought suit against the defendant United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (the “Act”) claiming that the defendant’s negligence in allowing her husband to fall from a therapy table during treatment caused his death. The United States has moved to dismiss, asserting that the plaintiff failed to comply with a jurisdictional prerequisite of the Act.
I. BACKGROUND
Edward Wozniak died on April 11, 1983 at the Jamaica Plain Veterans Administration Medical Center. Nearly two years later, on April 9,1985, his…
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