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Child's Fingertip Amputated After Guard's Negligence by Wisconsin resident Evonie Bean, guardian of injured minor Tianna Fudge, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2001 after Fudge's fingertip was caught in a prison door and severed while at a prison visit. Details of the 2003 settlement agreement …
$1.5 Million Settlement Provided to Immigrant Prisoner Who Lost Leg in Colorado Jail by David Reutter $1.5 Million Settlement Provided to Immigrant Prisoner Who Lost Leg in Colorado Jail by David M. Reutter The insurance company for Colorado’s Park County Jail has agreed to settle a former prisoner’s medical neglect …
Article • July 15, 2008
Prisoner's Action Affirmed Against North Carolina DOC For Negligence Leading To Amputation by The North Carolina Department of Correction (DOC) appealed the reversal of a 1989 summary judgment grant dismissing state prisoner Joe Medley's action for a DOC contracted private physician's negligence. The court affirmed the dismissal holding that the …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Grossly Disfigures Misdiagnosed Washington State Prisoner by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A Washington state prisoner who lay for two days in the Stafford Creek Correctional Facility infirmary in agonizing pain, with a rash covering his torso and slowly drifting into septic shock, had been misdiagnosed by …
Philadelphia City Jails Under Federal Supervision, Again, Temporarily by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court has held that the conditions of confinement in the intake units at Philadelphia?s local police districts, the Police Administration Building (PAB), the Philadelphia Prison System (PPS) and the Curran Fromhold …
California DOC Settles With Mistreated Diabetic Prisoner For $600,000 by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled with a prisoner who had sued for failure to properly treat his diabetic condition that eventually resulted in blindness and amputations. The $600,000 settlement included attorney fees and costs. When Daniel …
Both Thumbs, One Finger Amputated Nets Prisoner $25,000 by A New York prisoner whose thumbs and left ring finger were amputated was awarded $25,000. Mr. Saleh, a 31-year-old New York prisoner, was a carpentry student. While operating a circular saw, making name plates, he suffered "a traumatic amputation of the …
Article • December 15, 2007
Ingrown Nail Leads to Leg Amputation and $400,000 Georgia Jury Verdict by A Georgia prisoner was awarded $400,000 for inadequate medical care causing amputation of his left leg, below the knee. Mr. Booth, a 45-year-old Georgia prisoner with a long history of vascular disease, was treated by a prison doctor …
Article • December 15, 2007
New York Prisoner’s Saw Mill Injuries Net $736,000 by New York Prisoner's Saw Mill Injuries Net $736,000 A New York prisoner was awarded $736,000 for injuries incurred in a prison sawmill accident. Mr. Lowe was a 33-year-old New York prisoner when his left, non-dominant, forearm and hand were amputated in …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Diabetes, Amputations
Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner's Loss of Foot by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2006, CMS, the State of Wyoming and a prison doctor settled a lawsuit involving a prisoner who had to …
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 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to Reattach Severed Ear States Cause of Action by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that a doctor may be deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's serious medical needs for failing to sew the prisoner's ear back on after it was cut off. This action was filed by a …
Article • May 15, 2007
FTCA Claim Barred by Statute of Limitations by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that the continuing treatment doctrine did not toll the statute of limitations period for filing a medical negligence claim. While in federal custody in January 1997, Steven McCoy had his left leg …
EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury by In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation due to allegedly improperly applied restraints, the Ohio Court of Appeals, Tenth Appellate District, affirmed a jury's verdict in favor of EMSA Correctional Care, a for-profit health care provider. Plaintiff …
Missing Finger Tips Cost Washington DOC $2,500 by In February of 1997, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Richard L. Campbell $2,500. On January 18th, 1996, Campbell, a prisoner residing at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington, was working in the kitchen's meat room when he …
Expert Testimony Required in Medical Claims by A Pennsylvania prisoner survived a motion for summary judgment by prison health care providers after a U.S. District Court ruled that expert testimony was not required to establish the severity of his medical need nor the defendants' indifference to it. William McCabe, complaining …
Article • May 15, 2007
Disputed Facts Warrant Summary Judgment Reversal in Amputated Finger Case by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed Wisconsin District Court's grant of summary judgment to a deputy sheriff in a case involving amputation of a prisoner's finger. Robert Sallie, a Wisconsin prisoner, was confined in the Dane …
Article • May 15, 2007
Partial Amputation Defeats Summary Judgment by A Georgia federal district court has denied summary judgment to a doctor who treated a pre-trial detainee, holding the disputed facts merit resolution by a jury. Kenneth J. Seals asserted a state law claim of medical malpractice and Eighth Amendment violations for cruel and …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Suit For Untreated Diabetic Prisoner’s Death In Los Angeles County Jail Lobby Settled For $700,000 by Suit For Untreated Diabetic Prisoner's Death In Los Angeles County Jail Lobby Settled For $700,000 The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled out a wrongful death lawsuit for $700,000 that resulted from a jail …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Amputations
Leg Amputation Requires Trial by A federal district court in New York held that disputed factual issues requiring a trial existed as to whether prison and jail officials were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's medical needs after a broken bone became infected, requiring the amputation of the prisoner's leg. See: …
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