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Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 7
By Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
CMS,
HIV/AIDS,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Hepatitis,
Civil Procedure,
State Law Claims,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Suicides.
Location:
Illinois.
A federal district court in Illinois has dismissed the breach of medical care duty suit of a suicide prisoner's estate against Correctional Medical Services of Illinois (CMS), but encouraged the refilling of the suit in state court.
Ethel Hare was an Illinois prisoner at the Kane ...
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