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Vermont Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Inmate’s Suicide Claim

October 13, 2021

The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a Vermont lawsuit arising out of the suicide of an inmate in the custody of the Vermont Department of Corrections, holding: “It is undisputed that plaintiff failed to file a COM [certificate of merit required in medical malpractice claims] si[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules Prisoner’s Federal Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Not Subject To State Certification Requirement

August 28, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated July 24, 2021, stated: “The district court dismissed the FTCA claim because Pledger did not secure a certification from a medical expert before filing suit, as required by We[...]

Washington State Agrees To Pay $3.25M To Settle Prison Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

July 4, 2021

Washington State has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of a 57-year-old prison inmate who died from an abdominal incisional wound following cancer surgery that the prison medical staff failed to properly treat and for which he was only provided over-the-counter Tylenol for his excruciating p[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules Jail Doctor Is Entitled To Qualified Immunity But Jail Nurse Is Not

March 26, 2021

A 21-year-old jail inmate died while in the custody of a county jail. Her Estate brought a civil action for deprivation of civil rights under color of state law. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The United States district court granted summary judgment in favor of the county and qualified immunity to jail supervi[...]

Federal Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Defendants For Lack Of Adequate Medical Care In Jail

February 22, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated January 13, 2021: “Viewing the evidence in Plaintiff’s favor, a jury could conclude that Ronnie Sandoval would not have died but for the defendants’ unreasonable respo[...]

More Than 40 Migrant Women Involved In Georgia Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Forced Medical Procedures At Immigration Detention Center

January 31, 2021

On December 21, 2020, female immigrants filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia for alleged forced medical procedures that they were required to undergo at a Georgia immigration detention center. The eight named plaintiffs, some of whom rem[...]

Arizona County Jail Alleges Contract Psychiatrist May Be Liable For Inmate’s Hanging Death

July 16, 2020

Cochise County, Arizona recently filed notice in a pending lawsuit involving the suicide hanging death of a county inmate, arguing that if it is found liable for the death, the psychiatrist who provided mental health services to the county as an independent contractor should be responsible to pay th[...]

$11M Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Verdict For Prisoner With Cancer

January 13, 2020

An Illinois prisoner who claimed that the healthcare provider at the prison where he was incarcerated was more concerned with saving money than diagnosing and treating his cancer, has obtained a $11 million medical malpractice verdict for the deliberate indiffernce to his civil rights. The Illinois [...]

Maryland Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed

December 15, 2019

On November 29, 2019, the widow of a man who died in 2016 less than twenty hours after he was released from the Allegany County Detention Center in Maryland filed a deliberate indifference medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland loc[...]

$1.06M Prison Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 23, 2019

A federal jury recently returned its verdict in favor of an Ohio man who was the victim of medical malpractice in a Virginia correctional facility in the amount of $1.06 million ($708,671 in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages) for the permanent hand injury he suffered as a result [...]

Investigation Finds Suicide Crisis In U.S. Jails

August 1, 2019

Suicide is reported to be the leading cause of deaths in U.S. jails, peaking at 50 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2014 (data is unavailable for the years after 2014 but there were more than 300 suicides in local jails reported in nine U.S. states from 2015 to 2017). Federal statistics for 2014 report[...]

$344,000 Settlement For Arkansas Jail Death

July 13, 2018

An Arkansas county and the private health care provider contracted to provide medical services to prisoners in the county jail reportedly settled a deliberate indifference wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a jailed prisoner who died as a result of the failure of the defendants to provide[...]

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