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New York Prisoner Awarded $2,600 For Fractured Fibula, Improper Treatment

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007

Filed under: Medical, Skeletal Injury, Injury -- Misc., Premises Liability. Location: New York.

On March 28, 2001, a court of claims in Albany, New York, awarded $2,600 to a state prisoner who claimed he suffered a fractured fibula when he fell in a puddle of water leaked from a washing machine and that treatment by prison medical staff was insufficient.

After he slipped, ...

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