Legal Opinion
Tsosie v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 27, 2006No. 04-2342PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Nettie Ann Tsosie, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, died after an emergency room physician at a hospital operated by the Indian Health Service (“IHS”) failed to diagnose that she was suffering from hantavirus. Her husband, Leonard Tsosie, acting both in his personal capacity and as representative of the estate, along with Nettie Tsosie’s children, filed suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”). They claimed that the treating physician was an “employee of the United States” under the FTCA who negligently failed to diagnose the…
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