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141205P.pdf 05/26/2015 Dirk Askew v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1205
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Bye and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. While the waiver for "money damages"
granted by the Federal Tort Claims Act allows only lump-sum money
judgments, to best approximate the results contemplated by the relevant
Missouri statutes, the district court should have specified plaintiff's
future medical damages, created a reversionary trust to hold those funds,
ordered periodic payments of future medical damages, with the corpus of
the trust to revert to the U.S. upon plaintiff's death; judgment vacated
and the case remanded for further proceedings.