Missouri man awarded $725,000 for complications from back surgery at VA hospital
Walter Paul Hoover of Webb City, Missouri, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in 2011, two years after he underwent surgery that allegedly caused complete paralysis of his quadriceps. Hoover had fallen and injured his back in 2009. During a surgery to repair his back, surgeons Drs. Jeffrey Oppenheimer and Dennis McDonnell at the John L….