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New Jersey Appellate Court Finds No Extraordinary Circumstances To Excuse Failure To File Affidavit Of Merit In Prison Medical Malpractice Case

March 13, 2018

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its opinion approved for publication on February 27, 2018 that the failure of the plaintiffs’ original New Jersey medical malpractice attorney to file the required Affidavit of Merit (AOM) in[...]

Florida Federal Appellate Court Finds Inmate Claims Of Deliberate Indifference To Serious Medical Need Sufficient

October 24, 2017

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on October 3, 2017 that the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing an inmate’s complaint before any of the defendants filed a response or the parties had c[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed for Prisoner’s Death

April 14, 2017

The adult daughter of a jail prisoner in Georgia has filed a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the private company that was contracted to provide medical services to prisoners, for the death of her mother due to the alleged failure to provide timely and adequate medical ca[...]

Virginia Jail Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Medication Withdrawal Leading To Death

December 16, 2016

The family of a Virginia jail inmate who died while in custody filed a federal jail medical malpractice lawsuit on December 1, 2016 against numerous defendants for the death of the 26-year-old man who had informed the jail medical personnel that he was addicted to Xanax but the staff wrote down on t[...]

Jail Deaths In Ohio And California Lead To Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuits

November 29, 2016

The Ohio Case The family of a jail inmate who died while incarcerated in an Ohio jail while he was withdrawing from heroin filed a wrongful death medical malpractice case against the private operator of the jail and its physician assigned to the jail, alleging that the doctor’s medical neglige[...]

Georgia Prison Sued For Inmate’s Failed Suicide Attempt, Medical Negligence

November 26, 2016

Earlier this month two Georgia lawsuits were filed on behalf of a Georgia prison inmate by his mother, alleging that prison correctional staff and prison medical staff were negligent and that their negligence left her son in a near-comatose state after his failed suicide attempt while locked in his [...]

$11.8M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Prison Inmate’s Suicide

September 27, 2016

A federal jury in Pennsylvania recently found that the defendant prison health care provider, the defendant prison physician, and the defendant prison nurses were not only medically negligent but were also deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs that led to his suicide in his p[...]

Ohio Responsible For Inmate’s $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, after three hours of jury deliberations in federal court in Ohio, the eight-person federal jury awarded a former Ohio prison inmate $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages after the State of Ohio failed to timely file an answer to the inmate[...]

California Inmate Claims He Was Given Antifungal Toenail Medication For His Eyes

September 11, 2016

A California prison inmate filed a state lawsuit against a California prison on August 25, 2016, alleging that the prison doctor intentionally prescribed anti-fungal toenail medication for use in his eyes to treat inflammation, knowing that the medication was inappropriate and could cause harm, whic[...]

Maryland Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed After Prisoner’s Death

June 30, 2016

A federal wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Maryland following the death of an inmate at a correctional center who was allegedly denied timely and proper medical care while she was suffering severe withdrawal symptoms from drugs, which led to her becoming unresponsive in her cell and later[...]

Federal Judge Dismisses Maryland Inmate’s Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Claim

May 16, 2016

A federal judge in Maryland dismissed an inmate’s Maryland medical malpractice deliberate indifference claim that correctional officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights when they failed to properly assess and care for his medical needs while he was incarcerated in federal prison in Maryla[...]

Oregon Inmate Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Lost Kidney

April 26, 2016

A 62-year-old Oregon inmate recently filed a federal medical malpractice lawsuit against the State of Oregon and Oregon Department of Corrections physicians alleging that their medical negligence and failure to provide timely and appropriate medical care led to a loss of kidney due to a severe inf[...]

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