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County Fined $500,000 for Deliberate Indifference
Loaded on July 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1990, page 2
County Fined $500,000 For Deliberate Indifference
Filed under:
Workplace Injury,
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Skeletal Injury,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Florida.
A federal appeals court upheld a damages award of $500,000 because of a physician assistant's deliberate indifference to an inmates serious medical needs.
The county road camp prisoner in Florida injured his leg when he jumped off the bed of a work crew truck ...
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