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Florida: Sheriff’s Office and Medical Provider Pay $1 Million for Prisoner’s Death
Loaded on Nov. 8, 2014
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2014, page 40
Filed under:
Armor Correctional Health Services,
Private Contractors,
Stroke,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Florida.
In July 2013, Armor Correctional Health Services agreed to settle a wrongful death suit by paying $800,000 to the family of Allen Daniel Hicks, Sr., who died after being denied medical care while incarcerated at a jail in Hillsborough County, Florida. The county paid another $200,000 to Hicks’ family.
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