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· 10/22/1914

Ford v. Southern National Life Insurance

Citations

  • 160 Ky. 449
  • 169 S.W. 874
  • 1914 Ky. LEXIS 477

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  • holding that a genuine jury 10 issue existed regarding a guard who “took no action to summon medical help or to inform 11 her fellow deputies that [plaintiff] would not wake despite her yelling and hard knocking 12 at his door” and the inmate later died
  • granting summary judgment to official where the evidence showed he should have been 11 aware of plaintiff’s medical need from visual safety checks or review of the medical record, “but 12 not that he was in fact was aware of such a need”
  • “a reasonable jury could conclude that failure to provide regular monitoring was evidence of the County's deliberate indifference to substantial risks to inmate” when officers instead used a more indirect form of monitoring.

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Judges: Nunn

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