E-Newsletter: February 2018

Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice

The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.

RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased

$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant

$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse

$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant

Dead Inmate’s Family Files $60 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Fred Brewington of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington has filed a $60 million federal lawsuit on behalf of the family of a man who was incarcerated and later died while in custody at a Nassau County jail. The lawsuit claims that jail personnel violated the civil rights of Michael Cullum when they failed to provide adequate medical care and cites negligence and medical malpractice.

The defendants named in the lawsuit include Armor Correctional Health Services — which failed to properly care for Mr. Cullum and is facing similar lawsuits — the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, the Nassau County Police Department, and Nassau University Medical Center (where Mr. Cullum died).

Mr. Cullum was arrested on August 26, 2016 on drug charges and sent to Nassau County jail. On September 5, 2016, Mr. Cullum died while in custody. The New York State Commission of Correction determined Mr. Cullum died of a blood clot that formed in his leg and traveled into his lungs; the causes of death also included pancreatitis and opioid dependency.

The commission’s report found that Mr. Cullum waited nearly five hours before seeing a doctor. The lawsuit stated that Armor medical staff provided breathing treatments without a doctor’s order and did not immediately send Mr. Cullum to the hospital when his medical condition quickly declined.

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