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Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million

Loaded on July 15, 2010 published in Prison Legal News July, 2010, page 30

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Private Contractors, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness). Location: Virginia.

Prison Health Services (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of a man who died at a Virginia jail, with the sheriff’s office paying another $100,000.

Joseph Combs, 57, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from bipolar disorder, ...

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