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Jury awards $54 million in nursing home death
Jurors in New Mexico have awarded $54 million to the family of a woman who died at a nursing home – $4 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages. The woman had died of internal bleeding and her family’s attorneys produced evidence that the bleeding had been going on for several days without response.
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