Van Fossen v. United States

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• holding notice of claim was properly presented even though under Virginia law it was filed by the incorrect party
• concluding it would be “specious to argue that persons who are named as statutory beneficiaries with a right to an accounting from their personal representatives are not legally entitled to assert a claim for wrongful death” to exhaust their claims under section 2675
• concluding it would be \specious to argue that persons who are named as statutory beneficiaries with a right to an accounting from their personal representatives are not legally entitled to assert a claim for wrongful death\ to exhaust their claims under section 2675
• listing cases “holding that a notice of claim was properly presented notwithstanding the plaintiff’s lack of authority under state law to bring a claim on behalf of other beneficiaries”

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