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Court Awards $146,000 in Arizona Medical Indifference Case
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001
by Lonnie Burton
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2001, page 23
An Arizona prisoner was awarded over $146,000 in damages in January 2000 after he filed suit claiming that an Arizona prison nurse's care amounted to deliberate indifference.
Filed under:
Medical Misconduct,
Workplace Injury,
Medical,
Injury -- Misc.,
Vision.
Location:
Arizona.
Manuel Covarrubias, 46, was a prisoner at the state prison at Douglas, Arizona in April, 1995, when he was injured while working. Covarrubias, ...
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