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Pentagon raises cap on military medical malpractice claims
Changes would increase the amount of compensation troops can receive.
Feres helps military avoid accountability for harm. New ruling could be a chance for justice.
For decades, the Feres doctrine has protected the military from lawsuits over things like training mishaps, medical malpractice, and sexual assault.
By Sonner Kehrt, The War Horse
Fears of openly gay troops were vastly overblown: Pentagon report
Concerns about combat effectiveness and unit cohesion were basically unfounded, researchers found.
Troops could get payouts for medical malpractice aboard ships
The proposal builds on earlier reforms to how military malpractice cases are handled.
Military sexual assault survivors should be able to sue for damages, judges rule
A lawsuit against the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs could now go to trial.
Family of sailor who died by suicide in brig appeals Navy’s denial of medical negligence claim
Attorneys for the parents of Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Macoy Hicks, 20, contend the Navy failed to follow the letter and spirit of the law in its “arbitrary and capricious” denial.
Navy denies malpractice claim filed by family of sailor who killed himself in military jail
A law change now allows troops and surviving families to file medical malpractice claims against the services, but how that process is adjudicated remains unclear.
How a military jail failed to protect a suicidal sailor from himself
Macoy Hicks's death could be one of the first big tests of a new military medical malpractice claims process.
Senate panel OKs Iraq war authorization repeal
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a measure to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq War authorizations, a further step toward curbing presidential war-making powers.
By Joe Gould
No. 2 US diplomat says Iraq war authorization ‘should be repealed’
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday that the Biden administration supports repeal of the war authorization Congress provided in 2002 to invade Iraq, teeing up action in the Senate on Wednesday.
By Joe Gould