Category: Correctional Healthcare Expert Witness
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Correctional Healthcare Expert Not Allowed to Opine on Physical Symptoms
This action arises from the death of Gregory Neil Davis while he was incarcerated as a pretrial detainee at the Oklahoma County Detention Center. Plaintiff, as special administrator of the estate of Davis, alleged that numerous Jail and Medical Defendants acted with deliberate indifference to Davis’ serious medical needs in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment…
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Emergency Medicine Was Expert Allowed to Opine on Correctional Oversight
Approximately 30 hours after Mark Beckner was booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail, he was found dead in his cell. Beckner’s son, Brandon Beckner, and his estate (“Plaintiffs”) filed suit asserting that the County of Santa Clara, correctional officers, and jail personnel were deliberately indifferent to Beckner’s serious medical needs in violation of federal…
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Correctional Healthcare Expert’s Testimony About the Risk of Overdose Admitted
S.F., a former detainee in the Denton County Jail, asserted claims for alleged violations of her constitutional rights on account of the jail’s treatment of her withdrawal from opioids during two separate incarcerations and the alleged denial by the jail of medication for Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”). Plaintiff filed a motion to strike or limit…
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Correctional Healthcare Expert Witness’ Testimony on the Risks of MOUD in Correctional Settings Excluded
A district judge in West Virginia barred the Correctional Healthcare Expert from opining that there was no evidence of medical malpractice, deliberate indifference, discrimination, or negligence. Joseph Taylor has struggled with opioid addiction for nearly half his life. He is diagnosed with Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) and is treating this chronic brain disease with Medications…
