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Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
16 Years of Failure to Treat Neurological Disorder Results in $48,000 Award by David Reutter 16 Years of Failure to Treat Neurological Disorder Results in $48,000 Award by David Reutter A New York Court of Claims awarded a prisoner $48,000 for pain and suffering caused by prison medical staff rendering …
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Washington Prisoner Granted Injunction Ordering Outside Orthopedic Evaluation by Mark Wilson Washington Prisoner Granted Injunction Ordering Outside Orthopedic Evaluation by Mark Wilson A Washington federal district court issued a preliminary injunction ordering prison officials to have an orthopedic specialist evaluate a prisoner’s shoulder injury. Washington prisoner Shawn Francis began complaining …
Corizon Needs a Checkup: Problems with Privatized Correctional Healthcare by Greg Dober Corizon, the nation’s largest for-profit medical services provider for prisons, jails and other detention facilities, was formed in June 2011 through the merger of Prison Health Services (PHS) and Correctional Medical Services (CMS). In April 2013, the debt-rating …
Brief • February 21, 2014
M.H. et al v. County of Alameda, CA, Plf 2nd MiL to Limit Expert Testimony, medical screening, 2014 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 MICHAEL J. HADDAD/ State Bar #189114 JULIA SHERWIN/State Bar #189268 GENEVIEVE K. GUERTIN/State Bar #262479 T. KENNEDY HELM/State Bar #282319 HADDAD & SHERWIN 505 Seventeenth …
Brief • January 20, 2014
Harrison v. County of Alameda, CA, Deposition - Wild, medical evaluation alcohol withdrawal, 2014 HARRISON v. COUNTY OF ALAMEDA DEPOSITION OF KATHRYN J. WILD, RN, MPA, CCHP CONDENSED TRANSCRIPT January 20, 2014 CRANGLE REPORTING SERVICES (510) 653-1312 www.cranglereporting.com DEPOSITION OF KATHRYN J. WILD, RN, MPA, CCHP DEPOSITION OF KATHRYN J. …
New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $16 Million Due to Poor Medical Treatment by Christopher Zoukis In March 2012, a New York state prisoner was awarded $15.7 million after being left a quadriplegic due to inadequate medical care. The judgment was entered by a New York Court of Claims which found …
California: State Not Liable for Failure to Provide Needed Treatment so Long as Medical Care is Summoned by On January 15, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that state prison officials were immune from liability, as a matter of law, for decisions that resulted in a prisoner failing to …
Qualified Immunity Denied to Nurses who Ignored Prisoner's Symptoms of Active TB; $2.28 Million in Damages, Fees and Costs on Remand by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on July 12, 2012 that a former prisoner had presented sufficient evidence against three nurses to overcome qualified immunity in a …
Brief • August 7, 2013
Hernandez v. United States, FL, Settlement, Misdiagnosis Causes Permanent Disability, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA OCALA DIVISION ROBERT LEE HERNANDEZ, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 5: 11-CV-00370-MSS-PRL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. --------------------~' STIPULATION FOR COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE OF FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT CLAIMS PURSUANT TO …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Sixth Circuit: Failed Cancer Diagnosis Not Deliberately Indifferent by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's denial of qualified immunity to a Michigan prison doctor and nurse accused of failing to diagnose a prisoner's bone cancer. On February 13, 2007, Mound Correctional Facility prisoner Joshua Reilly …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Filed under: Medical, Cancer, Misdiagnosis
$3,750 Posthumous Settlement in California Prisoner’s Medical Suit by State officials have settled a federal lawsuit against California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation medical staff that alleged lengthy delays in the diagnosis and treatment of a prisoner’s stomach cancer. Gerardo Richardo Gallegos was a California state prisoner who did not …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Report Criticizes Ohio Prison Doctor Who Resigned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An August 2011 performance report by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) found that a prison doctor failed to properly follow-up with his patients, and improperly discontinued medications and treatment without meeting with patients. …
Brief • December 15, 2011
Hernandez v. United States, FL, Complaint, Misdiagnosis Causing Permanent Disability, 2011 Case 5:11-cv-00370-EAK-TBS Document 16 Filed 12/15/11 Page 1 of 17 PageID 188 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Ocala Division ROBERT LEE HERNANDEZ, Plaintiff, vs. Case No. 5:11-cv-00370-EAK-TBS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. / FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT …
Article • November 15, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Misdiagnosis, Muscular
Misdiagnosed Achilles Tendon Rupture Nets $5000 Settlement for Washington Prisoner by A $5,000 settlement was reached in a medical negligence claim against the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC). Oliver M. Wright was a prisoner at Stafford Creek Correctional Center when he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in his left leg …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Oregon Settles Prisoner’s Heart Failure Medical Mistreatment Case for $390,000 by Mark Wilson “This poor woman had two valves diseased, both of them stressing her heart out, giving her heart failure,” said Dr. Sanjiv Kaul, head of cardiovascular medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), speaking of Katherine Anderson, a …
Ellis et al v. CCA, IN, Complaint, nurses sued based on poor conditions and inadequate treatment, 2011 STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF MARION ) ) SS: ) MARION COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CAUSE NO. HARRIETT ELLIS, TIA MARTIN, ) DELORES McNEIL, ANONI ELMORE, ) PATRICIA FORREST, and SHAVON JONES, ) ) …
Oregon Prison Officials Treat Heart Failure with Antacid, Tylenol, Heat Pack by Mark Wilson In May 2007, Katherine Anderson was sentenced to 26 months in prison for embezzling $2,400 from her employer, a non-profit agency. She was sent to Oregon’s Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). The 31-year-old mother of four …
Bashimam v. City of Tallahassee, FL, Exhibit A, Designation of F.R.Civ.P.30 (b)(6), 2010 EXHIBIT A: Designations of Subject Matter for F.R.Civ.P. 30(b)(6) Representatives Bashimam v. City of Tallahassee, et al. Representative(s) of the City of Tallahassee shall be prepared to testify regarding: Supervision: Command structure; chain of command; reporting between …
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
Devoe v. Broaddus, CO, Second Amended Complaint, Medical Negligence, 2009 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 09-cv-00711-PAB-BNB DEBRA KAY DEVOE, Plaintiff, vs. MARK BROADDUS in his Individual Capacity as Warden, SUSAN ROBERTS in her Individual Capacity as CNM, NP, JENNIFER COUNTRYMAN-TRUJILLO, in …
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