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Policy of Hiring Trained Medical Professionals Does Not Immunize County from Municipal Liability in Wrongful Jail Death; Case Settles for $475,000.00

by John E. Dannenberg

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that where a Los Angeles County Jail prisoner died of allegedly deficient medical attention, the county?s defense of relying upon the professional discretion of medical doctors to automatically immunize the county from municipal ?policy? liability in a subsequent ...

 

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