By Benjamin Weiser
The New York Times
NEW YORK — New York City has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that a postal worker died in jail because his severe alcohol withdrawal went untreated.
The former postal worker, Oswald Livermore, 51, was arrested in May 2007 and jailed in the Manhattan Detention Complex, known as the Tombs, after a dispute in which his wife barred him from their apartment because he had been drinking, a court opinion says.
The lawsuit contended that despite clear evidence Mr. Livermore had alcohol withdrawal — he had seemed agitated and disoriented, and admitted at the jail’s clinic that he drank two or three pints of rum a day — medical personnel there failed to follow a written protocol on treating severe alcohol withdrawal, which includes hospitalization.
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