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Article • September 15, 2009
$15,000 Settlement for Seattle Jail Work Injury by Washington State’s King County paid $14,928.70 to settle the lawsuit of Bonni Estes, who alleged damages from an incident at the Kent Regional Justice Center on March 7, 2002. That day she was working in the Center’s bakery, assisting another prisoner in …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Seventh Circuit Vacates Dismissal for Failure to Prosecute; $50,000 + Fees Awarded Following Remand by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s suit for failure to prosecute. The appellate court found the severe sanction of dismissal was not justified. Illinois prisoner Amilcar …
$226,000 Workers’ Comp Settlement for Pennsylvania Guard Scarred by MRSA by A Pennsylvania prison guard who contracted a staph infection that caused facial scarring has settled a workers’ compensation claim for $226,000. While employed at the Graterford Prison in 2003, guard Carol Snyder contracted an infection. She awoke on the …
$9,000 Award for Hawaiian Prisoners Bitten By Dogs at Oklahoma CCA Prison by On October 31, 2008, a Hawaiian state court awarded $3,000 each in damages to three Hawaiian prisoners who were bitten by dogs while incarcerated at a private prison in Oklahoma. Jonathan K. Lum, John Daffron and Frank …
No Tort Liability for Louisiana Employer Accused of Negligence in Death of Prisoner on Work Release by Louisiana prisoners injured while in work release may not pursue a tort action against the prisoner’s employer, the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, 2nd District, decided April 30, 2008. Instead, the exclusive remedy …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
$4.75 Million Settlement in Virginia Jail Construction Accident Case by $4.75 Million Settlement in Virginia Jail Construction Accident Case On June 26, 2008, Electric Power Systems, Inc. (EPS) entered into a $4.75 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by electrician Larry Shifflett, 53, who was seriously injured during construction of …
Workman's Compensation Apportionment Rules Do Not Apply to Former Prison Guard by In 2005, while working for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), then prison guard James Alexander suffered work related injuries to his heart, cardio¬vascular system and left arm. Pursuant to provisions contained in California Labor Code …
$750,000 Settlement for Colorado DOC Guard Death At Hands Of BOP Training Instructors by Colorado state resident Pamela Perse brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1995 after Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) personnel's negligence resulted in the death of her husband. The suit settled for $750,000 …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Arbitrator Awards Hawaii Prisoner $7,500 for Injuries Sustained While Working in Kitchen by On March 10, 2008, a Hawaii prisoner was awarded $7,500 through arbitration after being burned by hot coffee. On April 3, 2007, Will Kaaihue received second degree burns down the left side of his body while working …
Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories by Brandon Sample Federal Prison Industries (FPI), the largest legal sweatshop in America, has jeopardized the lives and safety of untold numbers of prisoners and staff working in its recycling factories, according to a preliminary report in an investigation by the …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
South Dakota Guard Liable for Prisoner’s Electrocution Death by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prison work crew guard was not entitled to qualified immunity in an Eighth Amendment suit alleging he failed to protect a prisoner from death by electrocution due to a downed power …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
$305,021 Awarded to Missouri Prisoner Struck by Tree; State Legislature Takes Note by Brandon Sample $305,021 Awarded to Missouri Prisoner Struck by Tree; State Legislature Takes Note by Brandon Sample A Missouri prisoner was awarded $305,021 after being struck by a tree. In February 2000, Hortense Cain, a female prisoner …
Article • August 15, 2008
Washington Prisoner Gets nearly $10,000 for Work Detail Injury by David Wolfrum, a Washington state prisoner, was closing the doors on a semi-trailer at the McNeil Island Correction Center when the brakes failed, causing the truck to roll backward, pinning Wolfrum against a loading dock. He sued in state court, …
Article • August 15, 2008
Louisiana Sheriff Immune When Litter-Crew Prisoners Injured by On April 5, 2006, a Louisiana Court of Appeals held that a prisoner who was injured while working on a litter-abatement crew for the sheriff could not sue the sheriff unless he proved gross negligence or an intentional act by the deputy …
Article • August 15, 2008
N.Y. Injured Prisoner Held Partially Liable For Facility's Inadequate Equipment And Supervision by New York State prisoner Charles Moran brought suit against the state for labor law violations and improper supervision and equipment after falling from a ladder at the Watertown Correctional Facility (WCF) in 2002. The labor law claims …
Article • July 15, 2008
Texas Prisoner’s State, Federal Work-Related Injury Claims Reinstated by A Texas appeals court held in this case that because a prisoner’s state and federal work-related injury claims against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) were based in law, dismissal as frivolous was improper. State prisoner Jumeau Onnette was painting …
Article • July 15, 2008
New York Prisoner Falls in Kitchen Netting $868,516 by A New York prisoner who was injured when he fell in the prison kitchen was awarded $868,516. In May 1991, 29-year-old prisoner, Mr. Lopez, slipped in liquid on the kitchen floor. He “suffered a fractured tibia, resulting in varus and rotation …
Article • July 15, 2008
Filed under: Work, Workplace Injury
No Damages Awarded for Job-Related Hand Injury by A female New York prisoner prevails but is awarded no damages for an on-the-job hand injury. Ms. Miner was a New York prisoner when her hand was caught in a plate roller she was operating. She sustained only minor injuries. Minor filed …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
New York Prisoner Awarded $112,000 For Leg Burns by On August 30, 2007, a court of claims in Syracuse, New York, awarded $112,000 to a prisoner who burned his legs while working in a prison kitchen. While imprisoned at the Watertown Correctional Facility on July 16, 1995, Daniel Marria was …
Iowa Prisons Fined $92,000 For Prisoner Workplace Accidents by Fines totaling $92,000 were levied in January 2007 by Iowa?s Occupational Safety and Health Bureau against the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC). In March 2006, a Fort Madison prisoner severed a finger in a table saw in the Prison Industries workshop. …
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