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No Qualified Immunity for Private Health Care Provider
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1998, page 21
Afederal district court in Florida denied qualified immunity to a private provider of health care services to a county jail. Health care personnel failed to give a prisoner with a history of heart attacks her heart medication and ignored her complaints of chest pains until she suffered a fatal heart ...
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