{"id":108223,"date":"2025-02-11T21:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/11\/judge-approves-familys-905k-wrongful-death-settlement-against-emts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:48:56","slug":"judge-approves-familys-905k-wrongful-death-settlement-against-emts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/11\/judge-approves-familys-905k-wrongful-death-settlement-against-emts\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Approves Family’s $905K Wrongful Death Settlement Against EMTs"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. District Judge John F. Murphy of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed the settlement awarding $905,000 to the family members of Tamika Jones, who died a day after paramedics allegedly convinced her not to go to the hospital. The court also approved awards for $300,000 in attorney fees and $30,000 in costs.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge John F. Murphy of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed the settlement awarding $905,000 to the family members of Tamika Jones, who died a day after paramedics allegedly convinced her not to go to the hospital. The court also approved awards for $300,000 in attorney fees and $30,000 in costs.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge John F. Murphy of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed the settlement awarding $905,000 to the family members of Tamika Jones, who died a day after paramedics allegedly convinced her not to go to the hospital. The court also approved awards for $300,000 in attorney fees and $30,000 in costs. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/legal-news-pPB2FQ.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}