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$9.6 Million Awarded for Child Death in Illinois Jail
Loaded on June 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2001, page 21
On October 19, 2000 a Cook County jury in Chicago, Illinois awarded $9.6 million to the estate of Joyce Hughes, who died from injuries she sustained after she was born in a cell in the Cook County Jail near Chicago on October 29, 1996.
Filed under:
OB/GYN,
Municipal Liability,
Contractor Liability,
Wrongful Death,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Illinois.
Katrina Taylor, Joyce's mother, was nine …
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