Apparently his VA doctors were not independent contractors- so the family could sue-
as in the " it could happen to you " info in our FTCA forum.
Independent contractors are filling our VAMCs as health care professionals and the VA holds no accountability over them, if they damage or kill a veteran.
The best a veteran could do is either sue the independent doctor in a district court or maybe sue the contracting firm they work for.
Section 1151 isn't even available for compensating any harm an independent contractor might do to you... because they are not considered VA employees.
In the case I posted in the FTCA post- it took the General Counsel 8 months to find out the malpracticing doctor was not an employee of the VA- but an independent contractor.
By then the veteran's FTCA statute of limit in California had run out to sue the doctor a different way.
This is what you all served for? It is unconscionable! I think vets have the right to know if their VA doctors are NOT VA employees.
I do not believe it should take 8 months for the OGC to determine whether a doctor, nurse, etc is a VA employee or not.
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Apparently his VA doctors were not independent contractors- so the family could sue-
as in the " it could happen to you " info in our FTCA forum.
Independent contractors are filling our VAMCs as health care professionals and the VA holds no accountability over them, if they damage or kill a veteran.
The best a veteran could do is either sue the independent doctor in a district court or maybe sue the contracting firm they work for.
Section 1151 isn't even available for compensating any harm an independent contractor might do to you... because they are not considered VA employees.
In the case I posted in the FTCA post- it took the General Counsel 8 months to find out the malpracticing doctor was not an employee of the VA- but an independent contractor.
By then the veteran's FTCA statute of limit in California had run out to sue the doctor a different way.
This is what you all served for? It is unconscionable! I think vets have the right to know if their VA doctors are NOT VA employees.
I do not believe it should take 8 months for the OGC to determine whether a doctor, nurse, etc is a VA employee or not.
Then again, I dealt with the OGC.
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