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Nevada jury awards wrongly discharged patients in settlement
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31665
Subject(s) - lawsuit , class action , jury , damages , settlement (finance) , action (physics) , law , state (computer science) , class (philosophy) , political science , criminology , geography , medicine , psychology , business , physics , philosophy , finance , algorithm , computer science , payment , epistemology , quantum mechanics
Nevada officials and the state's psychiatric hospital are liable for nearly $9 million in class‐action damages for sending patients with mental illness to other states unaccompanied and without resources, according to local news reports. Following a class‐action lawsuit, a Nevada jury has determined that patients wrongly discharged will each receive approximately $250,000 each.