2016 Correctional Health Care Industry Attendance
Written by: Beth Boone, Esq. Hall Booth Smith, PC (HBS) proudly participated in several national correctional and correctional health care conferences in 2016, including exhibiting at the American Correctional Association’s Annual Conference
The Continuing Fall of the Prison Population in Georgia – A Brief Look at One Charter School’s Effort to Keep the Trend Going
Written by: Jennifer Dorminey Herzog, Esq. Between 1990 and 2011, the Georgia adult prison population more than doubled to nearly 56,000 inmates.[i] Georgia’s incarceration rate in 2011 – 1 in 70 adults behind bars – was the fourth h
The Changing Role of Correctional Health Care Professionals
Written By: Beth Boone It seems that there are almost daily reports of encounters between law enforcement and mentally ill individuals, some with devastatingly fatal consequences for the families who initiate the contact by calling for assistanc
Beth Boone Presenting at the Annual American Correctional Health Services Association South East Conference
Beth Boone, Partner at HBS will be presenting Recent Trends in Correctional Health Care Litigation at the annual American Correctional Health Services Association 2015 South East Region Fall Conference At the Savannah Marriot on Saturday, Se
Mike Frick Presented at the American Correctional Health Services Association National Conference
Mike Frick, Partner at HBS presented Anatomy of a Lawsuit in a Correctional Healthcare Setting at the American Correctional Health Services Association National Conference on March 20th, 2015 in Orlando, FL. Mr. Frick presented an informat
Defending Medical Malpractice Claims in the Correctional Healthcare Setting
Any health care practitioner in the correctional healthcare setting can see what appears to be either a more recent upswing in actual claims and lawsuits, or at least what appears to be more frequent news media accounts of the same. http://www.
Indemnity Provisions: Be Careful How you Contract
An indemnity contract obligates one party (the indemnitor) to reimburse another party (the indemnitee) for a loss suffered and to save him harmless from liability. Indemnity provisions are frequently found in everything from business contracts t
Recent Case Highlights Risk Management Tips for Correctional Healthcare Providers
A complaint was recently filed against law enforcement officials and a correctional healthcare company in the Northern District of Texas, Wichita Falls Division, alleging that local law enforcement officials and the correctional healthcare com
Welcome to the HBS Correctional Healthcare Blog
Welcome to the HBS Correctional Health care Practice Group BLOG. In this, our first entry, we offer an overview of the law that governs lawsuits brought by inmates against health care practitioners in correctional settings. In 1976, the Unit