Federal Appellate Court Upholds Jury’s Verdict For Compensatory Damages In Jail Deliberate Indifference Case But Finds Punitive Damages Award Excessive
The evidence at trial showed that on the morning of Saturday, August 25, 2018, NaphCare, Inc.’s (“NaphCare”) nurse Hannah Neill-Gubitz (“Gubitz”) found Cindy Lou Hill (“Hill”) lying shirtless on the floor of her cell and screaming in pain at the Spokane County Jail (“the [...]