Santiago-Montanez v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

DELGADO-HERNÁNDEZ, District Judge.

José Santiago-Montañez initiated this action against the United States and others under the Federal Tort Claims Act,1 essentially claiming that the Veterans Administration (‘VA”) was negligent (1) in not informing him that a VA doctor had diagnosed him with anxiety neurosis with paranoid features and in need of psychotherapy in 1977; and (2) in failing to give him proper treatment for a finger injury (Docket No. 1 at pp. 8-14, 19-23). Before the Court is the United States’ “Motion for Summary Judgment” (Docket No. 26), which plaintiff opposed…