Overview
- Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight filed seven Federal Tort Claims Act complaints against the Defense Department, the Army and the Defense Health Agency on behalf of seven Jane Does.
- The filings allege the Army was negligent in hiring, supervising and retaining Maj. Blaine McGraw and failed to enforce safeguards, with alleged abuses at Fort Hood’s Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and during his prior assignment at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii.
- Allegations include non-consensual filming and unnecessary, sexualized exams, with some patients describing exams conducted without chaperones or privacy and one off-post recording of a non-patient.
- The Army previously preferred four charges and 61 specifications against McGraw, including 54 counts of indecent visual recording tied largely to 2025 incidents, and says there are 44 victims in the criminal case; he is held in pretrial confinement at the Bell County Jail.
- The civil docket is widening as the Carlson Law Firm says it now represents nearly 30 former patients and is preparing additional FTCA claims, while the Army continues notifying former patients, including roughly 1,600 in Hawaii.