{"id":34318,"date":"2023-08-07T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=34318"},"modified":"2023-08-07T13:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:41:33","slug":"10-claim-bills-filed-for-the-2024-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/08\/07\/10-claim-bills-filed-for-the-2024-session\/","title":{"rendered":"10 &#8216;Claim&#8217; Bills Filed for the 2024 Session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man shot in the neck by a Lakeland police officer more than two decades ago and a woman who was critically injured and later died after a Florida Highway Patrol officer used a stun gun on her are among the subjects of 10 newly filed \u201cclaim\u201d bills in the state Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bills, filed before a Friday deadline for such legislation, seek more than $38.1 million for incidents in which state or local government agencies played roles in people\u2019s deaths or injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sovereign-immunity.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sovereign-immunity.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sovereign-immunity-300x200.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A legal concept known as \u201csovereign immunity\u201d typically shields agencies from paying large amounts in lawsuits. But claim bills, if passed, direct agencies to pay more than sovereign immunity caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an example of the bills, Sen. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg filed a measure (SB 20) that seeks $312,500 for Reginald Jackson, who was shot in the neck by a Lakeland police officer during a 2001 traffic stop. The officer was deemed to have discharged his firearm in a careless and negligent manner, according to the bill. A jury awarded $412,500 to Jackson, but only $100,000 has been paid because of sovereign immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As another example, Sen. Shevrin Jones, D-Miami Gardens, filed a measure (SB 4) that seeks $1.75 million for the estate of Danielle Maudsley, 20, who in September 2011 tried to flee while handcuffed at a Florida Highway Patrol substation in Pinellas Park, where she was being processed for traffic offenses. A trooper fired his stun gun into her back and she fell on the pavement, causing a traumatic brain injury. Maudsley remained in a vegetative state until she died two years later. Under sovereign immunity, her estate received $200,000 out of a $1.95 million settlement reached in 2015. The bill calls for paying the remaining $1.75 million. Past attempts to pass a claim bill in the Maudsley case have failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bills were filed for consideration during the 2024 legislative session, which will start in January. Friday\u2019s deadline did not apply to non-claim bills, which will be filed in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The News Service of Florida A man shot in the neck by a Lakeland police officer more than two decades ago and a woman who was critically injured and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}