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) has sued the sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida for awarding the jail’s health care contract to rival ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices without taking competitive bids. The lawsuit also alleges
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and the Parnall Correctional Facility – is provided by a privatecontractor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS).
Despite federal court monitoring of MDOC health care, which has been ongoing since the mid
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Washington Court Allows Ex Parte Communication With Litigant's Non Party Employees by Washington State residents Nancy and Daniel Wright challenged a court order preventing ex parte communication with Group Health Hospital (GHH) personnel regarding their injury lawsuit. The ruling was reversed as to communication with non party employees not having …
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Allcare provides prescription drugs and other medical services to prisoners in the Arkansas Department of Correc-tions through a subcontract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Malone
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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 …
Medical Services (CMS) for defamation of character after being fired over baseless accusations of one alleged eyewitness. The jury awarded them $50,000 collectively.
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, the SCSO had had a contract with PrisonHealthServices (PHS) to provide medical services to prisoners in its jail. That contract was worth $2.4 million yearly. With the contract expiring on October 1
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Nebraska Tort Law Notice Inapplicable to Medical Contractor by In partially reversing a Nebraska federal district court's grant of summary judgment, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held the Nebraska State Tort Claims Act (NSTCA) does not apply to contracted medical service providers. That ruling came in the appeal …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based privatecontractorMedicalDevelopmentInternational (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern California prisons
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. Introduction
There has been a large increase in contracting out for health care in U.S. prisons. As of
2004, 32 states contract for some or all prisonhealthservices (LaFaive 2006). Despite
the massive shift
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Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that an employee of a contract health care provider who was stabbed by a prisoner had a compensable psychological injury claim. Sandra Shivel, an employee of Wexford Health Sources (WHS), was attacked and physically injured by …
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serious medical need. This action was filed by a pretrial detainee against
officials at New Jersey's Cape May County Jail and employees of
CorrectionalHealthServices (CHS). The detainee, a dual amputee
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Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130 by On June 23, 1993, a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Jefferson County (Texas) Detention Center settled for $288,130. The suit had alleged that STAT Care, the jail's contract medical provider, failed to properly screen …
Dismissal, Summary Judgment Against Prisoner's Medical Claims Affirmed by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, held that a prisoner failed to prove that Washington prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs when they treated him with anti-psychotic …
PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case
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CorrectionalMedicalCare, Inc. (CMC) entered into a contract with MHM
Services, Inc. (MHM) to jointly bid for a health care
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IL DOC is Not a Joint Public Employer by The Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) farms out its prisoner-medical-services to subcontractors such as Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford). During an unfair labor practices case before the State Labor Relations Board (Board), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees …
Delaware Medical Contractor's Policies Deliberately Indifferent
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A Delaware Superior Court has denied a motion to dismiss a complaint
alleging FirstCorrectionalMedical (FCM
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