LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury put the state and a mental hospital administrator on the hook for close to $9 million in class-action damages for sending patients unaccompanied to states including California, Florida and Michigan.
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that accused Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of dumping patients in other states by giving them bus tickets.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is agreeing to accept $300,000 to settle a lawsuit with an insurance provider that wouldn't pay a state claim to settle allegations of patient dumping with the city of San Francisco.
Nevada officials are suing an insurance company that they say wrongly refused to help pay a settlement in a patient busing case brought by San Francisco.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A former Nevada psychiatric patient will get another chance to argue in state court that he was improperly discharged from a Las Vegas mental health facility and put on a bus to California.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors are on track to accept $400,000 from Nevada to settle allegations that psychiatric patients were wrongly shipped to California upon discharge.
The settlement is on Tuesday's Board of Supervisors agenda.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada officials have approved paying $400,000 to San Francisco to settle allegations that psychiatric patients were wrongly bused to California.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval says the state has reached a settlement with San Francisco over allegations that Nevada psychiatric patients were wrongly bused to California.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada officials including Gov. Brian Sandoval have approved more money to fend off a lawsuit that San Francisco filed over alleged psychiatric patient dumping.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from Nevada over a lawsuit that claims the state wrongfully bused indigent psychiatric patients to San Francisco without paying the costs of their medical care.
A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit against the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital from a plaintiff who claims he was put on a one-way bus trip from...
BY AMY KINGSLEY -- Monday, Gov. Brian Sandoval publicly acknowledged that the state had put ten psychiatric patients on buses and sent them out of state, to places where they had no family members or arrangements for treatment.
