Claims Trimmed In $2.5M VA Staffer Sex Assault Suit – Law360

Claims Trimmed In $2.5M VA Staffer Sex Assault Suit By Y. Peter Kang Law360, Los Angeles (April 11, 2017, 8:05 PM EDT) — A Kansas federal judge on Monday dismissed a negligent hiring claim against the federal government in a $2.5 million suit accusing a former Veterans Affairs physician’s assistant of sexual assault, and also said the patient can’t assert a medical negligence claim that the assistant overprescribed pain medication. U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia partially granted the federal governme

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