Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner’s “Needless & Preventable” Death From Flu Complications Nets Record $3 Million Settlement

Loaded on March 1, 2021 by Mark Wilson published in Verdict1 March, 2021, page 48

Filed under: Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health. Location: Oregon.

by Mark Wilson

"Michael Barton died a brutal death because he was ignored and then written off as faking symptoms and refusing medication,” said attorney Bryan Dawson, upon securing a $3 million settlement in August 2020 — the largest in Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) history — for the late ...

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