Family of woman left to die in Killer County psych ward floor settles with city for $2M
The city will pay $2 million to the family of a woman whose death on a psych ward floor was captured on a shocking video that showed hospital staffers ignored her for hours, the Daily News has learned.
The settlement signed Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court before Justice Allen Hurkin-Torres, comes 11 months after Esmin Green collapsed and died at the notorious Kings County Hospital psychiatric ward known as G Building.
Green, 49, who had a history of mental illness, had been taken to the psychiatric emergency room on June 18 and may have been sitting in the waiting room for nearly a day - including hours in which she writhed and convulsed on the floor.
An autopsy determined she had a fatal blood clot in her lung caused by "physical inactivity."
Green's daughter Tecia Harrison sued the city and the Health and Hospitals Corp. for the careless and negligent way her mother was treated.
"To anyone who saw the video clip, it was clear this was a horrible, wrongful and negligent act," said lawyer Sanford Rubenstein, who represents Green's daughter.
The city Department of Investigation is looking into whether hospital staffers falsified Green's medical records.
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