After record $15 million settlement, San Diego County still confronts a slew of other jail-death lawsuits

Elisa Serna's mother describes the conditions that led to her daughter's death in custody

San Diego County is confronting more than a dozen other in-custody deaths and injuries that are all but certain to cost taxpayers many more millions of dollars over the coming months and years.

The allegations in case after case are remarkably constant: Deputies and medical staff violate policies, ignore pleas for help and allow people under their care to die unnecessary deaths.

Iredale & Yoo were the attorneys for the history-making settlement in the Elisa Serna case and represent four of the clients whose cases the article goes on to describe. Read the article here or in the PDF document below.

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