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New York Prisoner Awarded $295,000 For Knee, Ankle Injury by On July 29, 1999, a court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded $295,000 to a prisoner who suffered knee and ankle injuries when a stack of cartons containing frozen meat fell on her. New York state prisoner Karen …
Article • May 15, 2007
California: County Prisoner Injured Knee In Fall, Awarded $96,000 by On June 5, 1995, a jury in San Francisco County, California, awarded $96,000 to a prisoner who injured his knee in a job related fall. Plaintiff Nelson A. Portillo, 29, was serving a jail sentence at the San Francisco County …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Work, Workplace Injury
Washington Prisoner Awarded $16,695 For Back Injury by In April 1998, a Snohomish County, Washington, prisoner was awarded $16,695 in arbitration for injuries sustained when he fell from a County vehicle. The plaintiff claimed that in April 1996 while laboring on a work crew for the county jail he fell …
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 …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $6,000 For Hernia by In June 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $6,000 to a state prisoner who sustained a hernia while moving church pews as part of his work assignment. The plaintiff contended in his lawsuit that prison officials were negligent for failing …
Article • May 15, 2007
$303,113 Verdict in Negligence Failure to Train Arizona Worker Case by While imprisoned in Arizona, James Jenkins agreed to work in the Department of Public Works Maintenance yard in Duncan. On October 9, 1996, Jenkins was instructed to take a street sweeper to a gas station. He lost control of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Slip and Fall Injury Claim Dismissed by The plaintiff slipped and fell while trying to repair a roof leak. He complained that some aspects of his treatment were delayed and he never got a barium study and a sigmoidoscopy. This complaint amounted only to a difference of opinion about treatment …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $279,583 For Work-Related Arm Fracture by In June 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $279,583 to a prisoner who sustained a lower arm fracture after falling into an excavated area at a state prison. The prisoner argued that prison officials should have foreseen the …
New York Prisoner Awarded $350,000 For Work-Related Fractures by In February 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $350,000 to a prisoner who suffered heel and elbow fractures when he fell from the roof of a state prison. The award was reduced to $140,000, however, after the judge determined …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington Pays $90,000 in Roof Collapse by On April 29, 1996, Edward A. Swartz, a prisoner confined at Cedar Creek Correctional Center in Little Rock, Washington, fell through a roof while doing construction work. Swartz claims that the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections were negligent in failing …
Washington DOC pays $1,000 to Settle Work Suit by Washington DOC Pays $1,000 to Settle Work Suit In 1994, the State of Washington paid Robert Ryan Schmolke $1,000 to settle a suit. In 1989, Schmolke, a prisoner then confined at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington, was painting stripes in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington DOC Pays $15,000 for Scaffolding Injury by In 1997, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Michael W. Petrycki $15,000. Petrycki, a prisoner confined at Airway Heights Corrections Center in Airway Heights, Washington, suffered a head injury as he followed his supervisor to work. On 1994, …
$600 Awarded in MO Detainee's Illegal Segregation Claim by A Missouri Federal District Court, in a bench trial, held officials at the Medium Security Institution of the City of St. Louis violated a pre-trial detainee's due process rights by their custom of not distinguishing between pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners. …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York State Prisoner Awarded $1,000 For Work Related Knife Injury by On June 26, 2002, a state court of claims awarded New York state prisoner Jose Santiago $1,000 for a knife injury he sustained while working in the prison butcher shop. The injury required two stitches. While working in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Injured Georgia Prisoner's Negligence Claim Survives, Others Fail by In this case involving a Georgia state prisoner who was injured while on a work detail, the Court of Appeals of Georgia, Fourth Division, held that the prisoner's failure to provide ante litem notice to one of the defendants, the Stone …
Private Industries Employee Liable for using Disciplinary Hearing to Secure Restitution by Private Industries Employee Liable for using Disciplinary Hearing to Secure Restitution A Kansas federal district court denied in part and granted in part a motion for summary judgment filed by defendants in a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 action …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Court Of Appeals Awards Injured Prisoner $100,000 by On June 4, 1988, the Ohio Court of Appeals, Tenth Appellate District, awarded a state prisoner $100,000 for severe burns to his leg, reversing a Court of Claims judgment awarding the prisoner $20,000. While working to unplug a drain at the …
Montana State Prisoner Not Entitled to Disability And Rehabilitation Benefits While Incarcerated by Montana State Prisoner Not Entitled to Disability And Rehabilitation Benefits While Incarcerated The Montana Supreme Court held on appeal from the Workers' Compensation Court that state prisoner Gary Quigg was not entitled to disability benefits while performing …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Denied Workers' Compensation for Injury In State Community Job by The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of state prisoner Weldon Richard's workers' compensation claim for a fall he suffered while trimming trees in a community prison job. Richard filed a claim for benefits with the State Labor …
Article • May 15, 2007
$10,000 Awarded In New York Prisoner Work Injury Suit by In 2000 the New York Court of Claims awarded $10,000 in damages to a prisoner who cut his finger off while using a band saw at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York on February 7, 1996. He worked in the …
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