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☆ Peace Corps Agrees to Pay $750,000 to Family of Dead Volunteer
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Associated Press | Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
The Peace Corps has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a 24-year-old volunteer from Illinois who died in 2018 in East Africa after the agency’s doctors misdiagnosed a case of malaria, a law firm announced Tuesday. The doctor told her to drink water and take aspirin, said Dinnell, whose firm filed a federal lawsuit for damages in Chicago on behalf of the Heiderman family. Her daughter had wanted to join the Peace Corps since the time she was in junior high, Heiderman said. The Peace Corps issued a statement saying it “continues to mourn the tragic loss of Volunteer Bernice Heiderman.”“She was a remarkable Volunteer who was admired by her students and community in Comoros. The inspector general's review also found that Heiderman had not been following her required malaria suppression medication regime for several months prior to her death.
Persons: Bernice Heiderman, wasn’t, Adam Dinnell, Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC, Dinnell, Julie Heiderman, “, Heiderman, ___ Kusmer Organizations: Corps, Peace Corps, Houston, Associated Press, Volunteers Locations: Illinois, East Africa, Inverness , Illinois, Comoros, Chicago, Mozambique, Madagascar, Washington, Indianapolis
☆ Peace Corps, Criticized for Medical Care, Settles Wrongful-Death Suit for $750,000
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Sheryl Gay Stolberg | More About Sheryl Gay Stolberg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Peace Corps, which has repeatedly come under scrutiny for the medical care it provides to volunteers, has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 24-year-old volunteer who died of undiagnosed malaria in the island nation of Comoros off the coast of East Africa. The federal government did not admit any guilt or liability in the death of the volunteer, Bernice Heiderman of Inverness, Ill., according to a legal filing on Tuesday in Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The payment is nonetheless unusual. Under federal tort law, suing the government is a complicated and difficult process. Adam Dinnell, a lawyer for the Heiderman family, said he could find no record of any similar monetary settlements by the Peace Corps, a federal agency founded in the 1960s to spread peace and American good will around the world.
Persons: Bernice Heiderman, Adam Dinnell, “, Heiderman, ” Organizations: Corps, Court, Northern, Northern District of Illinois, Peace Corps Locations: Comoros, East Africa, Inverness, Ill, Northern District, American
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