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Medical Claim Accrues on Last Date of Treatment Denial
Loaded on March 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2003, page 24
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner's medical claim accrues on the last date that he was refused treatment and damages could be claimed back to the first date of refusal. Delbert Heard was in the Illinois Cook County Jail from 1994 to 1996. Several months ...
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