According to court documents, a VA nurse allegedly used private information to harass the wife of late retired soldier Christian H. McCoy.
The widow of Christian H. McCoy, a retired Special Forces member who was killed in 2019 while working a contracting job in Afghanistan, alleged in a September lawsuit filed in Massachusetts that a Veterans Administration nurse had lied to her stepchildren about the amount of their inheritance.
Francoise McCoy alleged that nurse Sarah McNary told her two stepchildren that they were owed $400,000 each from her late husband's life insurance policy, valued at $1.2 million. McCoy has asked for a trial before a jury and damages. Allegations in the filing included slander, violation of privacy and the infliction of emotional distress. Both McNary and VA Secretary Robert Wilkie were named as defendants in the lawsuit.
McNary allegedly became acquaintances with Christian McCoy in the time between his retirement from the U.S. Army and his acceptance of a position with military contracting firm CACI in 2018. Court documents state that McNary assisted Christian McCoy in filing for VA benefits.After Christian McCoy's death, McNary allegedly told both of the children that they were each due one-third of his insurance money.
In an attempt to relieve tension within the McCoy family, Francoise McCoy moved out of the house. According to the filing, Francoise McCoy"left all personal belongings and the security and safety of her home" in order to"live alone in a new house without family and support all in an effort to help." Francoise McCoy claimed that McNary used information she was privy to as an employee of the VA, including health and financial information, in order to harass the McCoy family.
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