Utah Federal Jury Awards $10 Million In Inmate Injury Case

Mealey's (August 19, 2022, 8:39 AM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — A federal jury in Utah on July 22 awarded $10 million in damages to the estate and mother of a Davis County Jail inmate who in 2016 fell from a top bunk bed in her cell onto a concrete floor and later died of the injuries, finding that a prison nurse was deliberately indifferent to the inmate’s medical needs and that the county violated the inmate's rights under the federal and state constitutions; on Aug. 1, the judge in the case granted the county judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) on the mother’s claim under the state constitution, for which the jury had awarded $2 million....