A Mexican immigrant who had sued Park County, Colorado officials for medical neglect during a 2003 detention in the county jail has reached a settlement with defendants and asked a District Court in Denver to dismiss the lawsuit (Civil Action No. 05-cv-00377-WDM-BNB).

Under the settlement, Park County’s insurers will pay $1.5 million to Moises Carranza-Reyes, and he will drop his complaint against the individual Park County officials and employees named in the suit. Park County’s insurers made the decision to settle this matter.

Neither Park County nor any of its officials or employees admit any liability and have denied Carranza-Reyes’s charges. 

While no party may discuss the settlement, pleadings in the case are public record.

Mr. Carranza-Reyes was represented by Bill Trine of Trine & Metcalf, P.C. in Boulder; Lloyd Kordick of Lloyd C. Kordick & Associates in Colorado Springs; Joseph Archuleta of Denver; and Adele Kimmel of  Public Justice, the national public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C.

Andrew Ringel of Hall & Evans LLC in Denver, and Josh A. Marks of Berg, Hill, Greenleaf & Ruscitti in Boulder, represented the defendants.