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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$875,000 Award for Illinois Prisoner’s Delay in Getting Hernia Surgery by David M. Reutter On April 1, 2024, jury in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois awarded $875,000 to state prisoner John E. Taylor, Jr., after finding officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and its contracted …
Article • February 22, 2023
Eighth Circuit Holds Delaying Surgery for Reducible Hernia Not Deliberate Indifference to Missouri Prisoner’s Serious Medical Needs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke What happens if you develop a hernia while jailed? One Missouri prisoner found the answer when he was forced to wait 16 months for surgical relief. Then, …
Article • October 5, 2020
$50,000 Settlement for Failure to Treat Hernias by Corizon Health agreed to pay $50,000 in a lawsuit alleging it deprived a prisoner of medically necessary surgery to correct his hernias. The suit remained unsolved against the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC). Upon receiving his initial physical exam upon entry into …
Grant v. Chamberlain, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASES OF ALL CLAIMS This Settlement Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into by and between the Plaintiff Don L. Grant (hereinafter referred to as "Plaintiff'), and Defendant Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Wexford"). The …
Springs v. Schwartz, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2020 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVJSION RYAN SPRINGS (R52272), Plaintiff, vs, ) ) ) ) No. 15-cv-5437 ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES; INC., ) et al., ) Defendants. 1. ) ) The Honorable Sara L. …
Cruz v. Williams, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JOSE CRUZ, Plaintiff, V. TARRY WILLIAMS, eta/., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) 17-cv-780 Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer Judge Presiding SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Hernias, Appeals
Illinois Prisoner Wins Partial Victory on Appeal in Hernia Treatment Suit by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 26, 2019, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court’s judgment as a matter of law against Illinois prisoner Gregory …
Grant v. Chamberlain, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2018 Case: 3:18-cv-50113 Document #: 18 Filed: 08/29/18 Page 1 of 17 PageID #:43 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION DON L. GRANT (L-02079), Plaintiff, v. TIM CHAMBERLAIN, BESSIE DOMINGUEZ, CATALINO BAUTISTA, DAVID T. HICKS, …
Karim v. Obaisi, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2018 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Release and Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and entered into by and between Plaintiff, SAMUEL KARIM, ("Plaintiff') and WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC. ("Wexford"), who are referred to collectively as the "Parties". I. In consideration for the …
King v. Ghosh, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2018 RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS In full and complete consideration of: I) the payment by of the sum of Eighteen Thousand Dollars ($18,000.00); and, 2) an agreement by Wexford Health Sources, Inc. to provide Plaintiffwith a general surgery consultation at the University of …
Broaddus v. Schicker, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2018 RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT THE UNDERSIGNED, ROGER T. BROADDUS, a person being of lawful age for the sole consideration of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) to the undersigned in hand paid, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, does hereby and …
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Florida Prisoners Denied Hernia Surgery Reach $2.1 Million Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $2.1 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit alleging the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) and Corizon, the department’s former private medical provider, denied hernia operations to prisoners to save money.  …
Springs v. Schwartz, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case: 1:15-cv-05437 Document #: 93 Filed: 10/06/17 Page 1 of 15 PageID #:258 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION RYAN SPRINGS, Plaintiff, vs MARY DIANE SCHWARZ, WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES INC., and TARRY WILLIAMS Defendants. …
Simmons v. Korte, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and General Release is made and entered into this 0h day of January 2017, by and between Plaintiff Karl Eric Ezekial …
Torres v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2017 036676/01245/MHW/JAP IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION EDGAR TORRES, Plaintiff, v. No. 1:12 CV 08389 WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., et al., Defendants. RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Release and Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") is …
Pope v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2017 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Release and Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and entered by and between Milton Pope ("Plaintiff') and Defendant, WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC. ("Wexford"), and referred collectively with Plaintiff as the ("Parties"). 1. Consideration and Release of Claims …
Barmore v. Dubrick, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2016 5350- MRS/PJS IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION SHAWN BARMORE, JR., ) ) Plaintiff, vs. DR. ANTHONY DUBRICK, DR. IMHOTEP CARTER, DR. SALEH OBAISI, WEXFORD HEALTH SERVICES, INC., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Ninth Circuit: “Debatable” Constitutionality Requires Qualified Immunity by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity for refusing to surgically repair a prisoner’s umbilical hernia because it was “debatable” whether they had complied with the Eighth Amendment. Washington state prisoner Fleet Hamby suffered …
Advanced Correctional Healthcare’s Brutal Brand of Jailhouse Medicine by Timothy Strayer in his hospital bed in Dearborn County ICU after spending just one month behind bars at the county jail. by Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof Timothy Strayer was approaching 70 years of age and suffering from multiple chronic illnesses in the …
Recurring Injury Subsequent to Lawsuit Settlement No Bar to New Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a prisoner’s previous lawsuit settlements did not preclude a complaint for the same type of injury occurring at a later time. It also held the district court had improperly concluded a …
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