Broken wrist costs county $450,000
Ramsey County has paid $450,000 to a St. Paul woman and her lawyers after a jury determined that a sheriff’s deputy broke her wrist at a bingo hall in 2003. The county had offered to settle the case, but the parties couldn’t agree on a dollar figure and the Ramsey County Board eventually decided to go to trial. Said Commissioner Tony Bennett: “Based strictly on the facts we were given, we didn’t …
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