Family Of Mentally Ill Man To Get $1.7M In Jail-Suicide Case
The suit had alleged that officials failed to properly diagnose Eric Loberg’s mental state and the degree to which he was a suicide risk.
Los Angeles Times:
County Approves $1.7-Million Settlement Over Jail Suicide
The daughters of a mentally ill man who jumped to his death in a Los Angeles jail in 2014 will receive $1.7 million under the terms of a settlement approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. Eric Loberg, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and appointed a legal conservator after being found “gravely disabled,” was placed in custody of the county Sheriff’s Department in November 2014. (Agrawal, 10/17)
KPCC:
LA County Pays $1.7 Million To Settle Jail Suicide Lawsuit
The 48-year-old Loberg, diagnosed as schizophrenic, died after jumping from a second-level railing at the downtown jail facility in Nov. 2014. He had been placed under the conservatorship of the L.A. County Public Guardian a year earlier on the grounds that his condition left him "gravely disabled" under the definition of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act. According to the complaint, 11 days prior to his death Loberg had escaped from Olive Vista, a private psychiatric hospital, where he had been committed for long-term treatment. (Glickman, 10/17)