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Resources For Bringing A FTCA Claim

(Disclaimer -- by making these documents available, Mr. Wallach is not intending to advise or advising on how to bring any form of action.  These materials are made available to assist practitioners in bringing FTCA action.  If you feel as though you have a FTCA claim, or wish that Mr. Wallach consult on complaint drafting, click here).

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• Wallach, Ian, "Drafting A Tort Claim Against the Federal Government And Its Contractors And The Limitations On The Independent Contractor and Discretionary Function Exceptions", The Federal Lawyer, March 2017.   Click here to read the article in The Federal Lawyer.  Click here to download the article. 
• Standard Form 95 (Prefiling Requirement for FTCA claim)
• Comparison chart on cases  evaluating the independent contractor exception to the FTCA 
• Order of Aug. 25, 20111, C.D.C.CA. Cal. Court in Panah v. USA, discussing application of discretionary function exception to a case involving a known hazard
• Order of May 20, 2016, 9th Circuit, in Edison v. USA and Nuwintore v. USA