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Contract Doctor Negligently Liable As Agent Of State DOC by State prisoner Joe Medley filed a medical negligence claim with the North Carolina Industrial Commission alleging that a doctor hired by the Department of Correction s(DOC), caused the amputation of his leg due to infection. The Commission granted summary judgment …
PrivateContractors Bound by State Consent Decree
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A consent decree between Medicaid patients and the state is binding as a matter of due process upon HMO's who were agents of the state
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Georgia Appeals Court Upholds $600,000 Judgment Against CMS
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On July 5, 2001, the Court of Appeals of Georgia Upheld a trial court's
$600,000 award to Stephanie Stitt, a former state
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Court Denies Jail Staff Motion to Dismiss in Death Suit by The plaintiff sued over the decedent's death in jail. A nurse, a doctor, and a private medical provider moved for a more definitive (sic) statement, asserting that language in the complaint such as "inter alia" and "is not limited …
for prisoners
to demand it. Although a CMS spokesman insisted that CMS doctors are
privatecontractors and that "it is the individual physician's
responsibility to make sure care is given to patients
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. After the defendants filed motions for summary judgment, the court found that genuine issues of material fact existed solely for plaintiff Freddie Mills.
Mills' claim grew from CMS's failure to provide
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Private Medical Services Skirmish Over INS Contract
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A Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss filed by PrisonHealthServices, Inc. The motion sought to dismiss the complaint
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CMS Doctor Not Liable for Delaying Bone Graft
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The plaintiff saw a specialist who said he needed a bone graft procedure
immediately, and the prison doctor defendant recommended that he get
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CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ
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The plaintiff complained about his medical care, reciting a long and
tortured history of his treatment and non-treatment for Hepatitis
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Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements by Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a Palm Beach Circuit Court improperly dismissed a prisoner's medical malpractice suit for failing to comply with pre-suit …
$40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records by $40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records Columbia Legal Services (CLS) brought action against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2003 for not providing public record documents requested …
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
No Immediate Appeals for Injunction Clarifications by by Matthew T. Clarke This appeal involves the latest round in a Byzantine conditions-of-confinement class-action civil rights suit by Puerto Rico prisoners which has been pending since 1979. At issue was the transition of the prisoner health care system from the jurisdiction of …
with MCDC's medical contractor, PrisonHealthServices. Dr. Daniels
diagnosed Tessier with pleurtis, a begnign condition, and ordered he be
given a chest x-ray and motrin. About 5:00 p.m. on May 20, Tessier
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Prison Liable in Denying Bone Marrow Transplant by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that prison officials can be held liable for promulgating policies that deny treatment to prisoners suffering from fatal illnesses, even when the prison has contracted out its medical care to a third party. …
Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA
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A Florida federal district court has held that a private medical
contractor, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc. (EMSA), and Sheriff Ken Jenne
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Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging
that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his
Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things,
$250,000
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, 1999, CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG) and two
doctors agreed to pay a total of $725,000 to settle claims against them
arising from a prisoner's death due to untreated tonsilitis. CFMG
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New York: Malpractice Suit Over Guard's Death Settles For $2,500,000 by On March 21, 2002, an unidentified plaintiff settled this medical malpractice claim against two physicians for $2,500,000. At issue was the medical treatment of a Riker's Island guard who suffered a heart attack in front of the jail's infirmary. …
but no treatment except pain killers and referrals to mental health. After release, he had to have two additional surgeries on his shoulder.
A private medical care provider (EMSA in this case) is not a municipality
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