Dillard v. Agency for Health Care Administration

KHOUZAM, Judge.

Reuben Fife, Jr., was catastrophically injured when he overdosed on cocaine shortly after he was taken into custody at a juvenile detention center. Candy Dillard, Fife’s mother, filed suit on Fife’s behalf against the Sheriff of Collier County, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and Prison Health Services, claiming that he had been denied appropriate medical attention at the detention center. The suit settled, and because Fife had received and continues to receive Medicaid benefits to cover his medical costs, the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which administers…