Nevada jury awards wrongly discharged patients in settlement | Zendy

Canady Valerie A. | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Premium

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.

This content is not available in your region!

Continue researching here.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research