Legal Opinion
Szimonisz v. United States
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided March 17, 1982No. Civ. 79-1543-REPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REDDEN, Judge:
This action for wrongful death under the Federal Tort Claims Act was brought by Carol Szimonisz against the United States Government for the failure of the Veteran’s Administration to diagnose and treat her husband’s operable brain tumor, leading to his death by suicide. The case was tried to the court.
George Szimonisz committed suicide on September 16, 1976. An autopsy was performed which revealed a parasagittal meningioma, a benign tumor of the covering of the brain, which was about the size of an egg. The tumor had not been diagnosed by the Veteran’s Administration…
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