Donald Feeley v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The defendant wrongdoer should not . . . get the benefit of payments that come to the plaintiff from a collateral source.”
• veteran may not recover value of medical care he received from United States free of charge; United States v. Gray, 199 F.2d 239, 243-44 (10th Cir. 1952), appears contra but actually is not
• veteran may not recover value of medical care he received from United States free of charge; United States v. Gray, 199 F.2d 239, 243-44 (10th Cir. 1952), appears contra but actually is not
• collateral source rule inapplicable and plaintiff with tort claim against United States could not recover value of free medical care furnished by an agency of the defendant
• “In some circumstances, there may be no double recovery at all because the plaintiff may be legally obligated to repay his original source of reimbursement, under the doctrine of subrogation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).