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Brief • April 16, 2015
~ Oep.C/ertc 2000 C.A. No. v. COUNTY OF BERKS; PRIMECARE MEDICAL, INC.; JOHN DOE; MARY ROE, Jury Trial Demanded Defendants. COMPLAINT 1. This is a civil rights and wrongful death action under 42 ...
, but most did not seek medical treatment. Representatives from PrimeCare Medical, the contractor that provides healthcare for all West Virginia jails, did not respond to a request for comment. In February ...
Class-Action Settlement Cures Constitutional Violations at Pennsylvania Prison by A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions at Pennsylvania’s Northumberland County Prison (NCP). Since the suit was filed in February 2008 on behalf of 12 prisoners by the Lewisburg Prison Project, NCP officials had disputed claims that …
medical contractor, PrimeCare Medical, as defendants. Shortly after Johnson’s arrest on February 22, 2007 for violating a restraining order against trying to contact his wife, he began complaining ...
PA Prisoner’s Civil Rights Action Viable Because Factual Dispute Exists by Vincent Cortlessa, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, sued guards and Primecare Medical, a private health care company ...
PrimeCare Medical, Inc., a for-profit firm, to provide jail healthcare services. In Northampton County alone, 16 prisoner lawsuits were filed between 1999 and 2005 alleging lack of care by PrimeCare ...
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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