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$790,000 Settlement In Ulcer Death of Georgia Jail Prisoner

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2006 published in Prison Legal News August, 2006, page 35

Filed under: Correctional Healthcare Solutions, Gastrointestinal, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice. Location: Georgia.

In November 2005, Dekalb County, Georgia, a private medical provider, and a local hospital agreed to pay a combined total of $790,000 to settle with the widow of a prisoner who died from a perforated ulcer.

While imprisoned in the Dekalb County Jail, the decedent, 64, was taken to Grady ...

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