Released on: September 11, 2008, 5:04 am

Press Release Author: Dietrich Elliot

Industry: Law

Press Release Summary: These Personal Injury Lawyers in Los Angeles, California are
your best lawyers to win personal injury claims!

Press Release Body: LOS ANGELES, California (August 24, 2007) – Los Angeles Personal
Injury Attorney David Drexler has won a $300,000 Wrongful Death settlement for the
family of Luan Morales, a female inmate at the West Valley Detention Center in San
Bernardino County, California after she bled to death in custody from a critical
pregnancy complication. Both Morales and her seven month old fetus died after
prison officials delayed contacting medical help until it was too late.

The facts of the Wrongful Death case concerns Morales, who was incarcerated during
her pregnancy, was designated “high-risk” in this Wrongful Death case. However,
Personal Injury Attorney Drexler said she was not transferred to the high risk ‘Unit
15\' nor were there proper communications between the physicians at Arrowhead
Regional Medical Center who treat pregnant inmates. The emergency was reported at
3:15 a.m. No medical attention was delivered and, incredibly, no ambulance was even
summoned until 4:24, over an hour later.

Los Angeles Personal Injury Attorney Drexler maintained that prison officials were
responsible for the Wrongful Death after not only failing to provide Morales with
proper medical attention due to her high-risk pregnancy, but in causing a fatal and
negligent delay in responding to Morale\'s hemorrhaging due to placenta percreta.

Making the Wrongful Death case more serious concerned a series of bumbling delays
including no call for back up by the attending deputy. Instead the deputy pushed
the button on Luan Morales’s jail cell for her to exit on her own, which she was
unable to do. When a deputy finally brought a gurney to Morales’s cell, he
transported her to the wrong place causing further delay. When he finally got her
to the clinic, the deputy wasted more time examining her before performing CPR
before calling an ambulance.

No physician was attending at the clinic that night and the deputy on duty claimed
she was busy logging in new female inmates at the time of the emergency. Nor was
there any life-saving equipment on site for such an emergency. Los Angeles Personal
Injury Attorney, Drexler, asserted that the Wrongful Death was a direct result of
the deputies on duty failure to respond, violating the West Valley Detention
Center’s own written policies and resulting in the Wrongful Death filing.

Personal Injury Attorney Drexler’s contention that negligent delays, lack of medical
personnel and a breakdown in communication led to Morales’s Wrongful Death was
answered by the plaintiff’s simple if cold claim that they were not responsible for
the bringing about Morales’s death. Mediator Viggo Boserup of JAMS in Santa Monica,
found for the plaintiff’s two orphaned children, Angel Rojas and Anthoney Llanes in
the amount of $300,000.


Web Site: http://www.attorney-personal-injury-los-angeles.com/

Contact Details: Law Offices of David Drexler
13808 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
http://www.attorney-personal-injury-los-angeles.com/
DietrichElliot@aol.com

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