Military Law

Read Personal Injury Law updates, news, and legal commentary from leading lawyers and law firms:

News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

Veteran Awarded Millions When VA Gives Wrong PTSD Meds

by Sylvia Hsieh | Lawyers.com on 1/24/2013

A Marine sergeant who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after some harrowing experiences in Iraq won $3.7 million in his lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for not treating his illness properly and...more

Soldiers’ Families Blocked from Suing Military Hospitals

by Lawyers.com on 3/29/2012

A large number of combat troops have been returning home from their overseas missions, and many are seeking treatment at military and VA hospitals for injuries and conditions they’ve suffered as a result of their combat...more

Fisher v. Halliburton: Fifth Circuit Invokes Common Sense To Defend Defense Base Act

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/14/2012

In March 2010, a federal district court in Texas ruled that the deaths and injuries sustained by a group of civilian convoy drivers in Iraq during insurgent attacks were not “accidents” caused by conditions of...more

Government Contractors - Fifth Circuit Upholds Exclusivity of Defense Base Act Compensation Scheme for Injuries to Federal...

by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC on 1/20/2012

On January 12, 2012, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion ending six years of litigation against KBR and Halliburton over injuries and fatalities to contractor drivers in an...more

Should Veterans Have the Right to Sue for Negligence in Military Hospitals?

by Robert Kraft on 7/6/2011

Since 1950, U.S. veterans have been unable to make claims for medical malpractice committed in military hospitals. This seemingly unfair rule was decided in a U.S. Supreme Court case referred to by the Plaintiff’s name,...more