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Federal Appellate Court Upholds No Deliberate Indifference Shown In Failing To Treat Mental Health Crisis Of Jailed Inmate

April 12, 2026

In the morning on the day of Jason Perez’s death, Diana Perez called the police in response to Jason Perez’s behavior, including threatening her. Eventually, officers located and transported Jason Perez to Live Oak County Jail. Perry and Vasquez worked as a corporal and officer, respectively, at[...]

Federal Appellate Court Revives Pre-Trial Detainee’s Deliberate Indifference Claim

January 19, 2026

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stated in its November 20, 2025 decision: “Starting with Gunter’s § 1983 claim for deliberate indifference under the Fourteenth Amendment, we find that the district court erred in finding Gunter’s evidence did not “create a genui[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Expert Disqualified Under State Law

September 29, 2025

After suffering severe complications from contracting influenza H1N1, Manuel Moreno filed a lawsuit against two dozen medical providers and other individuals working at the North Carolina prison where he was incarcerated at the time he fell ill. The claims against all but one of those defendants wer[...]

Maryland State Audit Report Criticizes Contracts For Health Care Services For Incarcerated Persons In Maryland

January 29, 2025

An Audit Report dated November 25, 2024 from the Office of Legislative Audits Department of Legislative Services Maryland General Assembly entitled “Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Incarcerated Individual Healthcare Contracts” stated in its cover letter, in part: Ou[...]

Arizona Supreme Court Discusses Requirements For Experts Regarding Prison Medical Malpractice Claims

December 18, 2023

Background Facts In December 2015, David Windhurst (“David”) was incarcerated at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. David was paraplegic and had various chronic medical issues, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, kidney disease, and injuries to his back and buttocks. Because o[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Affirms Prison Doctor Immune From Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

October 19, 2022

Court Affirms Prison Doctor Immune From Malpractice Lawsuit: Background Facts: Langston Patterson died a few months after suffering from cardiac arrest while an inmate in the Danville Adult Detention Center (“DADC”). The personal representative of Patterson’s estate sued the DADC physician, Dr[...]

Experts Say Arizona Prison Healthcare “Seriously Deficient”

December 19, 2021

The opinions of experts in an ongoing lawsuit filed in the United States District Court District of Arizona are damning in describing the health care (or lack of health care) provided to inmates in Arizona prisons: “I have worked as a physician in jails and prisons for 27 years. My opinions in[...]

Washington State Agrees To Pay $3.25M To Settle Prison Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

July 4, 2021

Washington State has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of a 57-year-old prison inmate who died from an abdominal incisional wound following cancer surgery that the prison medical staff failed to properly treat and for which he was only provided over-the-counter Tylenol for his excruciating p[...]

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 [...]

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