US Challenges Field Hockey Player’s $1.7 Million Concussion Win

The federal government is seeking to upend a former American University field hockey player’s $1.7 million award against the US stemming from an active duty Army doctor’s misdiagnosis of her concussion.

The government is challenging the judgment entered in July 2022 by Judge Reggie B. Walton of the US District Court for the for the District of Columbia in favor of Jennifer Bradley on her medical malpractice claim against the US.

The government will ask the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to find Walton erred in that ruling and in previously denying its motion to dismiss, ...