Legal Opinion
Zuchowicz v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 20, 1998No. Docket Nos. 97-6057, 97-6099PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
The defendant, the United States of America, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Warren W. Eginton, Judge). This suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680, was originally filed by Patricia Zuchowicz, who claimed to have developed primary pulmonary hypertension, a fatal lung condition, as a result of the defendant’s negligence in prescribing an overdose of the drug Danocrine. Following Mrs. Zuchowicz’s death in 1991, her husband, Steven, continued the case on behalf of his wife’s…
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