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August 17, 2022

State pays $2M to assaulted workers

OLYMPIA (AP) — A judge has ordered the state agency that operates Washington's largest psychiatric hospital to pay more than $2 million to four female health workers who were assaulted by a violent patient who repeatedly targeted women.

One of the nurses who filed the lawsuit, Bernia Garner, lost part of her ear when the patient vaulted over the nurses station, knocked her to the ground, choked her and bite off part of her earlobe. That same patient attacked three others, causing disabling injuries.


 
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