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$8.6 Million Award Against Wexford for Deliberate Indifference to Prisoner’s Kidney Cancer
Loaded on Nov. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2021, page 58
Filed under:
Wexford Health Services,
Cancer,
Settlements,
Deliberate Indifference.
Location:
Illinois.
An Illinois prisoner was awarded $11 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit alleging doctors with Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford), were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to treat his kidney cancer. The Court also awarded $667,201.45 in attorney fees and costs.
The award was ...
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