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Federal Appellate Court Revives Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Claim

March 3, 2026

Vernell Freeman, an Indiana prisoner, alleged that Nurse Kimberly Myers and Dr. Noe Marandet, medical providers at Miami Correctional Facility, violated his rights under the Eighth Amendment. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court denied Freeman’s motion for summary judgment and granted the defenda[...]

Federal Appellate Court States Certain Protections “Do Not Stop At The Prison Gates”

November 23, 2025

“The protections afforded by the Eighth Amendment, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 etseq., and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., do not stop at the prison gates. So when an inmate, whether counseled or pro se, claims that prison officials igno[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendants Sued As Individuals In Prisoner’s Malpractice Case

November 15, 2025

Plaintiff Keith Brown is a state prisoner in Pennsylvania. Brown initially filed a civil complaint in state court. Defendants Dr. Mary Joy Monsalud, Dr. Newton, and Karen Holly removed Brown’s state court complaint to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania as it r[...]

Oklahoma Pays $1M To Settle Prison Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Claim

August 15, 2023

Oklahoma Pays $1M To Settle Prison Wrongful Death Claim: Oklahoma has agreed to pay $1,050,000 to the mother of a prison inmate who died in 2018 at the age of 21 that a federal medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit described as a “tragic and utterly unnecessary death … caused by the[...]

$7M Settlement Reached With Private Texas Jail For Woman’s Death

June 19, 2023

$7M Settlement Reached With Private Texas Jail: A $7 million settlement was recently reached by the family of a 46-year-old woman who died while in the custody of a private Texas jail operated by LaSalle Corrections LLC. The family’s lawsuit alleged that the woman was arrested on April 5, 2019[...]

$4M Prison Malpractice Verdict In Virginia For Inmate’s Death From Untreated Aortic Aneurysm

February 21, 2023

$4M Prison Malpractice Verdict Inmate’s Death: In December 2022, a Virginia medical malpractice jury found that a prison nurse employed by a private company under contract to provide health care services to prisoners ignored the desperate pleas of an inmate who had been complaining of excrucia[...]

Washington Lawsuit Alleges Former Inmate Required Leg Amputation Due To Medical Malpractice

November 26, 2022

Inmate Required Leg Amputation Due To Malpractice: Javier Tapia, 40, who was released from prison earlier this year after drug and stolen vehicle convictions, filed a lawsuit against Pierce County and Alabama-based medical provider NaphCare. Tapia, who had no previous history of mental health issues[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants For Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated

November 18, 2022

Judgment Based On Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated: Kahil Johnson (“K. Johnson”) filed a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit involving the cancer care provided to Thomas Johnson (“T. Johnson”) while he was incarcerated in Maryland, arguing that the three-month del[...]

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[...]

Federal Appellate Court Vacates $8M Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Award To Inmate

December 27, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) vacated a jury award to a federal inmate in his deliberate indifference medical malpractice case in the amount of $1 million in compensatory damages and $7 million in punitive damages (the jury had awarded $10 [...]

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 [...]

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