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$400,000 settlement in wrongful death lawsuit against Yuma County

Kelly & Lyons, PLLC • Jul 22, 2016

Jason Kelly negotiated a $400,000 settlement against Yuma County for allowing a jail inmate to commit suicide while in custody.

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In July 2016, the Yuma County Board of Supervisors approved a $400,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a former Tempe police officer who, in 2014, killed himself in his Yuma jail cell.


Kelly & Lyons partner Jason Kelly represented the decedent's family in the suit.


Of the $400,000, Yuma County paid $300,000 and Correctional Healthcare Solutions paid the remaining $100,000.


Read more in the Yuma Sun (subscription required).

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