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Fall From Top Bunk During Seizure Nets $1,350,000

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Medical, Seizures, Skeletal Injury, Premises Liability. Location: Nebraska.

A Nebraska prisoner who was injured when he fell from a top bunk during a seizure was awarded $1,350,000.

Mr. Wright, a Nebraska prisoner, was assigned to an upper bunk when he had a seizure and fell out of bed. He suffered a cervical vertebra fracture, spinal nerve injury and …

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