King County to pay former inmate $1M for untreated injury

From the Associated Press's article in The Washington Times

King County will pay $1 million to an ex-jail inmate who fell while in custody, suffering a spinal injury that went untreated for days and left him with permanent nerve damage.

The Seattle Times reports Bryan Telford alleged medical malpractice by county-jail staff while he was being held before trial at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle when he fell in September 2016.

According to court documents, Telford's lawyers said he displayed immediately symptoms of a cervical spinal injury and asked to be transported to a hospital, but was not taken for 10 days.

Telford filed a medical-malpractice lawsuit against the county last year. The county will pay Telford $1 million.

In a statement, Public Health - Seattle & King County, which oversees jail medical staff, declined to comment on the specifics of Telford's case, citing privacy concerns.

Click here to read the full article on The Washington Times website.

Telford was represented in this highly-contested case by Mr. Sandberg with his Seattle-based co-counsel, Jason Anderson and Tyler Santiago from the law firm of Anderson Santiago, PLLC.