VA to Pay $5.75 Million to the Family of an Army Sergeant Who Died at a Florida VA Medical Center

The family of a U.S. Army veteran who died by suicide at the VA Medical Center in Riviera Beach in 2019 has reached a $5.75 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Department of Veteran Affairs. 

The settlement with the family of Sgt. Brieux Dash, a 33-year-old Army veteran from Palm Springs, is believed to be one of the largest by the U.S. Department of Justice in a wrongful death case involving a suicide.  

It concludes a lawsuit filed by Dash’s widow on behalf of his estate. In the lawsuit, Emma Dash alleged that the VA Medical Center failed to provide her husband with a place of safety and gave him “incompetent treatment” in the days before his death on March 14, 2019.  

Read the source article at The Palm Beach Post