Jury Awards $39.5M Over Discharged Psych Patient's Victims
By P.J. D'Annunzio ( April 7, 2026, 1:42 PM EDT) -- A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday hit a healthcare management company and a Pennsylvania hospital with a $39.5 million verdict, finding them liable for the deaths of four people who were murdered by a family member who was discharged from a psychiatric unit that failed to submit paperwork that would have prevented him from purchasing the gun he used to kill them....
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