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Indiana Appellate Court Holds Prison Doctors To Same Standards As Outside Doctors

November 26, 2014

In its decision filed on November 10, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Appeals Court”) held that the standard of care for doctors practicing in prisons is the same as the standard of care for doctors practicing outside of prisons, while acknowledging that doctors in prisons so[...]

Three Alabama Prisoner Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Filed For Three Inmate Deaths In 2013

November 3, 2014

An Alabama civil rights attorney recently filed three Alabama prisoner medical malpractice lawsuits on behalf of the families of three inmates who died as a result of three different incidents of alleged medical neglect in 2013. All three of the prisoners were being detained in the Madison Count[...]

Two Oregon Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Filed Against A Jail On The Same Day

October 22, 2014

On October 13, 2014, two medical malpractice lawsuits were filed in federal court in Oregon on behalf of one inmate who died the day before he was to be released, allegedly due to medical malpractice that occurred in the jail, and the other filed on behalf of an inmate who lost a testicle that had [...]

Arizona Agrees To Settle Prison Health Care Class-Action Lawsuit

October 21, 2014

The State of Arizona agreed to settle a pending class-action lawsuit filed against the Arizona Department of Corrections (“ADC”), pursuant to a stipulation of settlement filed on October 14, 2014 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, involving prisoners in[...]

Minnesota Inmate Died Due To Medical Negligence

January 12, 2014

A Minnesota inmate approaching the end of his four-month incarceration due to his parole violation died as a result of medical negligence, according to a federal medical malpractice lawsuit filed by his family on January 3, 2014. The inmate had sought medical care at the prison on five occasions [...]

Hawaii Inmate Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld

January 9, 2014

On December 31, 2013, the Intermediate Court of Appeals for the State of Hawaii (“Appellate Court”) issued its opinion in which it held that prison doctors are not shielded from personal liability for medical malpractice claims by the doctrine of qualified immunity. The Appellate Court h[...]

Georgia Appeals Court Holds Atlanta Not Immune From Inmate Medical Malpractice Claim

December 11, 2013

The Court of Appeals of Georgia, Georgia’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed the trial court’s refusal to dismiss a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by an inmate who alleged that he suffered severe and permanent injuries as a result of the Atlanta jail system’s failure to [...]

Russian Medical Malpractice Claim Denied For Jailed Activist’s Death

December 29, 2012

It is not very often that a medical malpractice claim in one country has led to international repercussions in which sovereign countries have enacted laws directed at officials of other countries in a spiraling escalation of retaliatory responses. But that is apparently what is happening this [...]

Kansas Inmate Medical Malpractice Settlement

December 22, 2012

On December 17, 2012, the Shawnee County, Kansas Commissioners approved a $150,000 settlement to the survivors of an inmate who died in November 2009 while imprisoned in its jail. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2012 by the prisoner’s aunt and mother against the [...]

Prison Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Case Settled For $8 Million

December 19, 2012

A woman who was jailed in 1998 in Wayne County, Michigan went into labor while she was incarcerated. The jail had her transported to a local hospital but she was sent back to jail two hours later. Back in jail, her labor pains intensified, causing other inmates to yell for the guards to assist the [[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death

October 23, 2012

On October 15, 2012, the surviving wife of a Tennessee prison inmate filed a medical malpractice wrongful death claim against the Tennessee Department of Correction in which she alleges that her 48-year-old husband died in prison due to medical malpractice. Her husband had a lung x-ray in September [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Determines That Two Separate Caps On Non-Economic Damages Apply For Wrongful Death Claims And Survival Actions In Non-Medical Malpractice Cases

September 4, 2012

On August 31, 2012, the intermediate appellate court in Maryland, known as the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), issued its written opinion in a case in which one of the issues was “whether the non-economic damage cap imposed by Md. Code (1974, 20[...]

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