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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[...]

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on October 3, 2017 that the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing an inmate’s complaint before any of the defendants filed a response or the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

$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[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Applies Res Ipsa Loquitor In Medical Malpractice Case

August 28, 2015

In a decision by the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) issued on August 14, 2015 in a medical malpractice case filed by a prison inmate against the medical services providers at the detention center in which he was incarcerated, the Appellate Court held, ̶[...]

Federal Appeals Court Discusses Deliberate Indifference To A Serious Medical Need In Inmate Cases

August 26, 2015

In an opinion filed on August 19, 2015 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Court of Appeals”), the appellate court discussed the high and often unfair hurdles faced by prison inmates alleging the deliberate indifference to their serious medical needs (that is[...]

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

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

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

Kentucky Appellate Court Applies Res Ipsa Loquitor In Medical Malpractice Case

Federal Appeals Court Discusses Deliberate Indifference To A Serious Medical Need In Inmate Cases

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