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Nature of Suit Code: 362
Nature of Suit: Medical Malpractice
Cause of Action: 28:1346 Tort Claim

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Bobby Yazzie, as Court Appointed

Permanent Guardian of Cindy Begay, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

and 

Marilyn Begay and Edison Begay, Sr., as

Court Appointed Guardians of Micah Uriah

Begay, 

 Intervenors,

v.

United States of America, et al.,

Defendants

CIV-04-1350-PCT-SMM

ORDER ON STIPULATED

EMERGENCY MOTION TO

APPROVE SETTLEMENT

Pending before the Court is a Joint Motion for Stipulated Emergency Motion to Approve

Settlement. (Dkt. 136.) The Parties having stipulated and jointly moved the Court to approve

the Settlement entered into by the Parties, and good cause appearing,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED GRANTING the parties’Joint Motion for Stipulated

Emergency Motion to Approve Settlement. (Dkt. 136.) 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties shall file a stipulation of dismissal with

prejudice no later than ten calendar days after the funding of the Settlement.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a settlement status hearing is set for Monday, April

30, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. If the parties file the stipulation of dismissal by Wednesday, April 25,

2007, the settlement status hearing will be vacated.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED approving the Settlement as follows:

Dismissal of private physician Defendant William Killam, M.D. without payment of any

money (he is not an agent or employee of the United States, and no funds payable in connection

with this settlement with the United States are being paid on his behalf or for his benefit).

Reimbursement from the United States to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment

System (AHCCCS) in the amount of the State’s funding share of medical expenses incurred by

Cindy Begay (excludes the Federal share of 67.45%) in the amount of $138,126.85. 

The following cash, annuities to both Cindy Begay and Micah Begay, and a Trust for

Cindy Begay, any balance remaining at her death reverting to Micah Begay, with a total cost of

$442,801.85:

 (i) To American General Life Insurance Company, rated A++ Class 15 by

A.M. Best rating service, the sum of One Hundred Fifty-Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty-Two Dollars and 00/100’s ($157,822.00) to purchase two

annuity contracts to provide the periodic payments specified below.

(ii) To Bobby Yazzie, as Court Appointed Permanent Guardian of Cindy

Begay, and attorneys, Rosenfelt & Buffington, P.A., the sum of Two Hundred

Fifty-Two Thousand Six Hundred Four Dollars and 18/100’s ($257,604.18),

representing litigation expenses of Twenty-Nine Thousand Forty-Three Dollars

and 38/100’s ($29,043.38), attorney’s fees of Eighty Five Thousand Four Hundred Thirty-Three Dollars and 95/100’s ($85,433.95), payment of the AHCCCS lien

of One Hundred Thirty-Eight Thousand One Hundred Twenty-Six Dollars and 85/100’s ($138,126.85) and Five Thousand Dollars and 00/100’s ($5,000.00)

payable to Bobby Yazzie for reimbursement of the Guardian’s expenses.

(iii) To Marilyn Begay and Edison Begay, Sr., as Court Appointed Guardians

of Micah Uriah Begay and The Glanzer Law Office, the sum of Twenty-Seven

Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars and 67/100’s ($27,375.67),

representing attorney’s fees of Seventeen Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-One

Dollars and 04/100’s ($17,751.04) and cash of Nine Thousand Six Hundred

Twenty-Four Dollars and 63/100’s ($9,624.63) for the use and benefit of Micah

Uriah Begay. 

Attorney's fees shall not exceed 25% of the settlement amount (28 U.S.C. § 2678) and

must be paid out of the settlement amount and not in addition thereto.

The United States will purchase the following annuity contracts:

For Cindy Begay - Beginning thirty days after funding, $600.00 per month payable

to Bobby Yazzie, as Court Appointed Guardian and Trustee of the Irrevocable Inter Vivos

Grantor Medical Care Trust for the Benefit of Cindy Begay, with payments continuing for the

life of Cindy Begay.

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 For Micah Uriah Begay - Beginning thirty days after funding, $250.00 per month

payable to Marilyn Begay and Edison Begay, Sr., as Court Appointed Guardians of Micah Uriah

Begay, for eleven years and eleven months (143 payments guaranteed). Then, beginning thirty

days after the final payment to the court appointed guardians of Micah Uriah Begay, $250.00

per month payable directly to Micah Uriah Begay for two months (2 payments guaranteed). In

addition, payable to Micah Uriah Begay, on March 17, 2019 a guaranteed lump sum of

$35,771.26.

DATED this 20th day of February, 2007.

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