Original Article The findings revealed hospital staff failed to provide the necessary stabilizing treatment after Otieno was “presented to the emergency department with an emergency medical condition.” By: Tyler Layne , Melissa Hipolit Posted at 5:11 PM, Dec 18, 2023 and last updated 8:59 AM, Dec 19, 2023 HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — HCA Healthcare’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, the hospital where […]
Andrew Fields v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Published Opinion
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Va. health staff failed Irvo Otieno as he suffocated, experts say
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysOriginally published by the Washington Post on July 26, 2024. Virginia authorities moved quickly to investigate after Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man, was suffocated on the floor of a state psychiatric hospital in March 2023. By the following week, seven officers and three hospital orderlies who piled on him had been charged with second-degree […]
New Cause of Action Adopted for Inmates Claiming Excessive Force
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysArticle by Bernie Pazanowski for Bloomberg Law. July 25, 2024, 3:12 PM EDT Inmate claimed officers acted outside of prison policies Money damages for constitutional violation is permissible A federal prison inmate may proceed with his suit for money damages against individual officers who allegedly used excessive force against him, the Fourth Circuit said Thursday. The […]
‘How do you get hypothermia in a prison?’ Records show hospitalizations among Virginia inmates
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysBY SARAH RANKIN Updated 2:49 AM EDT, May 19, 2024 Originally published by AP News. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you […]
Williams: Irvo Otieno’s family needs the Justice Department, without delay
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysOriginally published on May 10, 2024 MIKE KROPF, Richmond-Times Dispatch When Ann Cabell Baskervill announced she was resigning as Dinwiddie County commonwealth’s attorney to attend graduate school in France, it wasn’t hard to foresee her dream becoming an American nightmare for Kenyan immigrant Caroline Ouko. Ouko is the mother of Irvo Otieno, 28, who died of […]
2 Virginia prison supervisors named in death of a disabled inmate in amended suit
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysOriginal Article NPR | By Jaclyn Diaz Published January 14, 2024 at 5:36 PM ET Attorneys representing the sister of Charles Givens — a disabled inmate at Virginia’s Marion Correctional Treatment Center who died after allegedly being beaten by correctional staff — have filed a new federal complaint now naming two prison supervisors. NPR first wrote […]
Henrico hospital failed to stabilize Irvo Otieno’s crisis, report says. Then he died.
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysOriginal Article The findings revealed hospital staff failed to provide the necessary stabilizing treatment after Otieno was “presented to the emergency department with an emergency medical condition.” By: Tyler Layne , Melissa Hipolit Posted at 5:11 PM, Dec 18, 2023 and last updated 8:59 AM, Dec 19, 2023 HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — HCA Healthcare’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, the hospital where […]
They said her disabled brother died in Marion prison naturally. A lawsuit alleges otherwise.
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by adminNPR | By Jaclyn Diaz Published June 24, 2023 at 7:19 AM EDT Warning: Photography and videography below includes graphic imagery. For more than 12 years, Kymberly Hobbs had taken care of her older brother, Charles “Chuck” Givens. “I’m like his mother,” Hobbs said. She’s still looking after him, even after his death. Givens died last […]
Danny Zemel Named Chair of the Civil Rights and Employment Section of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Mark KrudysOur very own Danny Zemel has recently been chosen to head the Civil Rights and Employment section of the VTLA.
Client wasn’t lovin’ it: Wells Fargo loses arbitration case over McDonald’s stock
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by adminFinra arbitrators order the firm and a broker to pay about $500,000 to a former McDonald’s franchise owner after an options trading snafu. April 10, 2023 | By Mark Schoeff Jr. | Investment News Norman H. Williams alleged that Wells Fargo Clearing Services Inc. — doing business as Wells Fargo Advisors — and firm broker Frederick Robert […]