August 17, 2026
A Colorado federal judge has slashed a former ICU nurse's $15 million punitive damages verdict against a hospital to $2.5 million, while preserving a $5 million compensatory award and the jury's findings that the hospital racially discriminated and retaliated against her.
August 20, 2025
A Colorado federal jury awarded $20 million to a Black nurse who it found was fired out of race bias and retaliation by a medical center that she said falsely accused her of mishandling a patient's end-of-life care, which led to criminal charges against her that were ultimately dropped.