Month: September 2019

Advocates this week praised a new bipartisan bill to allow troops to sue the military in medical malpractice cases, but a key senator is still blocking any effort to overhaul the legal precedent, dimming chances for any major change this…

On Tuesday Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) introduced bipartisan legislation that would allow service members to sue the government for military medical malpractice. The SFC Richard Stayskal Military Medical Accountability Act of 2019, a companion bill to…