$5.25M verdict for prisoner’s wrongful death, due to psychiatrist prescribing medication without examination, causing adverse reaction and death. Also, medical staff were unqualified and corrections officers were deliberately indifferent to prisoner’s sickness. Verdict represented $2M conscious pain and suffering; $3M punitive damages against psychiatrist; and interest; plus additional $600k pre-trial settlement with jail staff.
Deliberately indifferent failure to diagnose and treat inmate’s spinal injury, causing quadriplegia and death; 28 year old male inmate survived by parents; all but $500,000 paid by Corizon.
Death in jail of 50-year-old, unemployed, alcoholic man, survived by four adult children. Non-economic damages only. Defendant Corizon Health, Inc., was deliberately indifferent to inmate’s medical needs by failing to place him on alcohol detox protocols and allowing him to go into severe alcohol withdrawal; then when inmate was hallucinating with Delirium Tremens, 10 deputies beat and Tased him to death.
Jail suicide of pizza shop owner; private jail medical provider was deliberately indifferent to his risk of suicide; jury assessed $8M in punis against the medical corp., PrimeCare.