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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
More Unsealed PrimeCare Settlements Total $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Jail Deaths by Privately owned prison and jail healthcare provider PrimeCare Medical has managed to keep details secret of payouts to settle lawsuits filed over injuries or deaths of prisoners, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, May 2022, p.1.] One of those …
Sixth West Virginia Jailer Found Guilty After Detainee Death, Estate Dismisses Claims Against PrimeCare Medical Employees by A former West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) guard supervisor was found guilty on January 27, 2025, on charges related to the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, at …
$4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   West Virginia Division of Corrections (WVDC) officials agreed to pay $4 million on November 8, 2023, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Southern Regional Jail …
Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to defendant officials with Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Police Department …
Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged by Six guards at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail were charged on November 30, 2023, in the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, less than a month after two fellow guards pleaded guilty to federal …
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical, Suicides
Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania unsealed the settlement agreement between PrimeCare Medical and the Estate of Charles Freitag. As PLN reported, Freitag, 57, …
Brief • January 18, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical
PrimeCare Bankruptcy Case 5:22-cv-00405 Document 871 Filed 01/18/24 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 13218 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA AT BECKLEY MICHAEL D. ROSE and EDWARD L. HARMON, on their own behalf and on the behalf of all others similarly situated, …
West Virginia High Court Decides Medical Practice Liability Act Not Applicable to Prison System by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia held that the Medical Professional Liability Act (MPLA), W. Va. Code §§ 55-7B-1 to 12, does not apply …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
$959,000 Paid by Pennsylvania County in Deaths of Two Detainees, Plus at Least $750,000 from PrimeCare by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye For the 2018 deaths of two detainees at Pennsylvania’s Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), the county has agreed to pay a total of $959,000. Its privately contracted …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$7,500 Settlement for Pennsylvania Prisoner Assaulted by Guards And Denied Medical Care by On March 23, 2021, an agreement was executed paying $7,500 to settle three complaints a former pretrial detainee had brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging …
Clark v. Feliciano, PA, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2021 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WHEREAS, I, Mark Anthony Clark (ccReleasor"), brought three lawsuits pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 pending in the United States District Court for the Eastem District of Pennsylvania before the Hon. Jeffrey L. Schmehl; and WHEREAS, the three …
Article • October 5, 2020
PrimeCare, Berks County Prisoner Who Loses Leg Agree to $850,000 Settlement by PrimeCare Medical agreed to an $850,000 settlement in a civil rights action alleging it failed to provide care for a prisoner at Pennsylvania’s Berks County Prison (BCP). The prisoner suffered amputation of her left leg below the knee. …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
PrimeCare Medical Pays Bulk of $252,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Detainee’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $252,000 settlement was reached in October 2019 in a lawsuit brought by the estate of a pretrial detainee who hanged himself at Pennsylvania’s Northampton County Prison (NCP). Kyle A. Flyte, …
Medical Provider Blamed for Deaths at New York Jail Replaced by Another Contractor ... Then Another by Joe Watson by Joe Watson For three years, elected officials in Niagara County, New York refused to give the families of Tommie Lee Jones and Daniel Pantera the satisfaction of terminating the county …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Former Pennsylvania Prison Doctor Sentenced for Fraud; Accomplices Convicted by The former medical director of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County Prison (LCP) was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to numerous schemes to defraud the government. Dennis Erik Fluck Von Kiel was employed as LCP’s medical director from …
Article • August 10, 2016
Jail Called to Scrutinize Detox Procedure in Wake of Increased Deaths by David Reutter The second death in six months of a pre-trial detainee at Pennsylvania’s Buck County prison has raised questions about its detox procedures. The scrutiny of such procedures should be a focal point for jail administrators throughout …
Pennsylvania: Woman Dies in Jail While Serving Sentence for Truancy Fines and Court Costs by Christopher Zoukis A 55-year-old mother of seven died in a Pennsylvania jail cell on June 7, 2014 while serving a 48-hour sentence for failure to pay truancy fines and court costs that totaled about $2,000. …
Federal Lawsuit Claims Negligence Caused Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Heroin Overdose Death by Christopher Zoukis A federal lawsuit alleges that officials at the Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania were negligent in the 2013 death of a prisoner from an accidental drug overdose. The suit, filed on March 24, 2015, came almost a …
Publication • 2015
Filed under: Primecare Medical
PrimeCare Contract With Montgomery County Correctional Facility 1-8-2012 To1-7-2015 HEALTH SERVICES AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN MONTGOMERY COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND PRIMECARE MEDICAL, INC. (PCM) . ) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. BUSINESS ENTITY 4 2. COUNTY FACILITIES 4 3. LICENSES 4 4. TERM AND TERMINATION! OF AGREEMENT 5 5. SERVICES TO …
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