Military families and service members won a partial victory Monday night over the "Feres Doctrine" when a proposal that would allow the Defense Department to review claims and pay compensation for military medical malpractice made it into the final version of the 2020 defense budget bill. Service members and families would still be barred from suing for military medical malpractice in federal courts by the doctrine, named for a 1950 Supreme Court case, but the secretary of Defense could permit review of claims for redress. Read more on Military.com.
Defense Budget Would Allow Pentagon to Pay Military Medical Malpractice Claims
