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Family Awarded $229,000 Against CMS in Illinois Hepatitis C Jail Death
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2003, page 15
A jury has awarded the family of a prisoner who died while in the Kane County Illinois Jail $229,500. On May 16, 2002, after 92 hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict against Correctional Medical Services of Illinois, the jail's health care contractor. The total award was originally $450,000 ...
Filed under:
CMS,
HIV/AIDS,
Hepatitis,
Wrongful Death,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Illinois.
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