Prison Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 4 of 9

$770,000 Prison Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed By Maryland Appellate Court

February 18, 2023

$770,000 Prison Malpractice Verdict Affirmed By Court: In its unreported opinion dated February 14, 2023, the Appellate Court of Maryland affirmed a prison medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $770,00 in which only noneconomic damages (pain and suffering) were sought. Underlying Facts C[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Prison Medical Malpractice Case Against Corizon Correctional Health Care

February 14, 2023

Malpractice Case Against Corizon Correctional Health Care Dismissed: The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland affirmed the dismissal of a prison medical malpractice case filed against Corizon Correctional Health Care because of improper service or process, in its unreported opinion dated December 2,[...]

Washington Lawsuit Alleges Former Inmate Required Leg Amputation Due To Medical Malpractice

November 26, 2022

Inmate Required Leg Amputation Due To Malpractice: Javier Tapia, 40, who was released from prison earlier this year after drug and stolen vehicle convictions, filed a lawsuit against Pierce County and Alabama-based medical provider NaphCare. Tapia, who had no previous history of mental health issues[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants For Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated

November 18, 2022

Judgment Based On Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated: Kahil Johnson (“K. Johnson”) filed a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit involving the cancer care provided to Thomas Johnson (“T. Johnson”) while he was incarcerated in Maryland, arguing that the three-month del[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Affirms Prison Doctor Immune From Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

October 19, 2022

Court Affirms Prison Doctor Immune From Malpractice Lawsuit: Background Facts: Langston Patterson died a few months after suffering from cardiac arrest while an inmate in the Danville Adult Detention Center (“DADC”). The personal representative of Patterson’s estate sued the DADC physician, Dr[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Washington State Supreme Court Holds RCW 7.70.150 Unconstitutional As To State Governmental Entities Too

August 18, 2022

Timothy Martin was a prisoner incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory in the Monroe Correctional Complex. In January 2020, Mr. Martin filed a lawsuit against the DOC in Snohomish County Superior Court. The DOC removed the case to federal court, and in February 2021, Mr. Martin amended his c[...]

Four Arkansas Inmates Sue After Given Ivermectin For COVID-19 Treatment Without Their Consent

June 2, 2022

A federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court Western District of Arkansas Fayetteville Division on January 13, 2022 by four inmates at the Washington County Detention Center (WCDC) alleges: “This case is about protecting the interests of detained persons in the integrity of thei[...]

Washington State Pays $3.75M To Settle Lawsuit Claiming Inmate Died From Untreated Cancer

April 30, 2022

The Seattle Times has reported that Washington state has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a 63-year-old inmate who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after his cancer was untreated for over one year. The man died on June 12, 2019 from breast ca[...]

Sequel Youth & Family Services LLC Faces Another Lawsuit Alleging Abuse Of Alabama Teen Under Its Supervision

March 7, 2022

On January 26, 2022, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Tevin Pike against Sequel TSI of Alabama, Sequel TSI of Tuskegee, and Sequel Youth & Family Services LLC (“Sequel”), alleging that Pike was a former 15-year-old resident at an Alabama treatment facility for children run by Sequel [...]

Federal Appellate Court Vacates $8M Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Award To Inmate

December 27, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) vacated a jury award to a federal inmate in his deliberate indifference medical malpractice case in the amount of $1 million in compensatory damages and $7 million in punitive damages (the jury had awarded $10 [...]

Five Examples Of Serious Medical Malpractice In Arizona Prisons

December 20, 2021

An ongoing lawsuit filed in the United States District Court District of Arizona cites many examples of serious and deadly medical malpractice events that have occurred in Arizona prisons. Lung Cancer A 69-year-old man died from metastatic lung cancer that first went undetected and then was ignored [...]

Experts Say Arizona Prison Healthcare “Seriously Deficient”

December 19, 2021

The opinions of experts in an ongoing lawsuit filed in the United States District Court District of Arizona are damning in describing the health care (or lack of health care) provided to inmates in Arizona prisons: “I have worked as a physician in jails and prisons for 27 years. My opinions in[...]

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