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Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Prisoner’s Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John Dannenberg Prisoner's Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled a wrongful death lawsuit …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$5 Million Jury Award Against Doctor in Death of Michigan Prisoner by A federal jury awarded $5,000,000 to the estate of a deceased state prisoner who died after a prison psychiatrist prescribed him psychotropic medication without conducting a proper evaluation. Ozy Vaughn was a Michigan state prisoner who suffered from …
Excessive Force And Medical Negligence Death In Youngstown, Ohio Arrest Settles For $350,000 From Police, $100,000 From PHS by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death of a Youngstown, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff …
Alaska Jail Settles Alcohol Withdrawal Death Case For $573,000 by On June 12, 2006, the State of Alaska settled a federal civil rights lawsuit over the wrongful death of a prisoner in a state-run jail for $573,000. Julia Walker is the mother of Troy Wallace, who died while a prisoner …
Locklear v. Marlboro County, SC, Exhibit 12 - Contract Between SHP and Charles Bush, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2007 Exhibit 1 PHYSICIAN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AGREEMENT between Southern Health Partners, Inc. and CHARLES A. BUSH, M.D. THIS AGREEMENT IS MADE AND ENTERED INTO this 1ST day of July, 2001, between …
Brief • May 30, 2007
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Padilla v. City of Alhambra, CA, SJ Order, Positional Asphyxia Death, 2007 -. 1....., r t ...., _ Priority -ICSend 1 2 3 FILED· WESTERN DIVISION CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT _ MAY 302007 _Clsd _ Enter _ _ JS-5/JS-6 JS-2/JS-3 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFO BY D (J DOCKETED ON CM …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Michigan's Prison Health Care System Found Contemptuous by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "Step on a man's foot once, and a polite apology will do. Do it twice, and a profuse apology is in order. Do it thrice, and you have left the land of apology and entered the …
Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary …
Bivens Action Legitimate For Deceased Prisoner's Mother To Pursue Damages by The U.S. Supreme Court held that a Bivens remedy was available to the mother of a prisoner who died while in custody and that the remedy was governed by federal law. Respondent, mother of a prisoner who died while …
California Granted Immunity in Parolee Wrongful Death Suit by George Martinez filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of San Diego County against the Department of Corrections (DOC) and the State of California (defendants) for the wrongful death of his daughter, Mary Ellen Martinez, who was kidnapped and murdered by …
Article • May 15, 2007
Parolee Negligent Supervision DUI Death Suit Settles for $6,000 by Tracy Joe Enoch-Jeune was convicted on four separate occasions of DUI or possession of drugs. Upon release from jail the final time, she was supposed to report to a probation officer within 24 hours. She never appeared and remained at …
Estate of Epileptic New Mexico Prisoner Settles for $1,250,000 by During the week of May 22, 2000, the estate of a deceased epileptic prisoner who was denied medical attention and then allegedly tortured and beaten by a jailer in the Taos County, New Mexico, jail settled prior to trial for …
New Mexico Jail Settles Escapee Murder Suit For $750,000.00 by In 2002, the Taos County Detention Center (TCDC) in New Mexico paid $750,000.00 to settle a law suit filed by George Weiss, the father of Jonathan Weiss. George Weiss claimed that the TCDC officials caused the death of his son, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Florida Sheriff Liable for Wrongful Death Stemming from Failure to Provide Medical Care by Florida Sheriff Liable for Wrongful Death Stemming from Failure to Provide Medical Care Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal held the Sheriff may be liable for failing to provide proper medical care to a prisoner who …
Article • May 15, 2007
No SJ in § 1983 Claim Over GA Prisoner's Death by No SJ in § 1983 Claim Over GA Prisoner's Death The Court of Appeals of Georgia held that genuine issues of material fact precluded summary judgment in a civil rights action brought by a deceased prisoner's daughter and administrator …
Sixth Circuit: United States Not Liable in Prisoner's Murder by On February 26, 2004 the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the United States was immune, pursuant to the "discretionary function exemption" of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), from liability in a lawsuit brought by the family …
Article • May 15, 2007
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Jury Verdict in Death Action by In this case involving an escaped teenage prisoner who shot and killed another boy, the Montana Supreme Court upheld a jury's verdict in favor of the state. Originally committed to the Pine Hills youth prison as a serious juvenile offender, …
Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130 by On June 23, 1993, a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Jefferson County (Texas) Detention Center settled for $288,130. The suit had alleged that STAT Care, the jail's contract medical provider, failed to properly screen …
Deceased Michigan Prisoner's Estate States Eigth Amendment Claim by The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan held that the estate of a prisoner who allegedly died as a result of indifference to his medical needs sufficiently stated an Eighth Amendment claim and that individual defendants were …
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