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$900,000 Settlement Reached With Ohio Jail in Detainee’s Fatal Seizure
Loaded on March 1, 2024
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2024, page 58
Filed under:
Seizures,
Jail Specific,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Deliberate Indifference.
Location:
Ohio.
by David M. Reutter
In October 2023, an attorney representing the estate of an Ohio pretrial jail detainee who suffered a fatal seizure after her June 2018 incarceration said the parties had reached a $900,000 settlement agreement.
The announcement by R. Craig McLaughlin of Elk & Elk Co., LTD in ...
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