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Article: VETERANS CARE CENTER SETTLES SUIT OVER DEATH CALVIN DOSS DIED IN 1998 AFTER A FALL AT SALEM CENTER
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- May 3, 2003
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The state-owned veterans care center in Roanoke has settled a
lawsuit with the wife of a man who died after a fall.
Dorothy Doss, whose husband, Calvin, died in May 1998, sued the
state, Virginia Veterans Care Center and others two years later,
asking for more than $10 million in a negligence and wrongful-death
claim. This week, a Roanoke circuit judge approved a compromise
settlement that ends the case and awards Doss and her children more
than $100,000.
Included as defendants were management at the veterans care
center; Dr. Gerald R. Roller; and Lynda M. Lynch, who was then a
licensed practical nurse.
The Virginia Board of Nursing revoked Lynch's license the month
after Calvin Doss died. ...