Washington: Jail Detainee Obtains $1 Million Settlement for Spinal Injury
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2018
by Steve Horn
published in
Prison Legal News
November, 2018, page 14
Filed under:
Skeletal Injury,
Failure to Treat,
Settlements,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Washington.
by Steve Horn
Bryan Telford, who was held as a pretrial detainee at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle, Washington in September 2016, recently obtained a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against the county.
Telford suffers from frequent fainting – known as syncope – and suffered a ...
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