Nevada to pay $600,000 settlement after disabled man in state institution dies from injuries sustain

Nevada will pay a $600,000 settlement to the family of a man with an intellectual disability who died in 2015 after staff at the state institution where he was living failed to follow proper protocol.

The Nevada Board of Examiners on Thursday approved the settlement, which resolves wrongful death lawsuits brought after 33-year-old Julio Cesar Montes died from injuries sustained in an altercation with another resident. The payment comes after the family sought as much as $3 million in the case.

According to the lawsuits and documents stemming from a state investigation, Montes had a moderate intellectual disability and a shunt in his brain and was living in Las Vegas at the Desert Regional Center, a 48-bed care facility for people with developmental disabilities.

On Nov, 22, 2015, staff members took him and other residents to a Special Olympics bowling event. In spite of his signs of aggression and a known competitive relationship with another resident, staff sat Montes and his rival near each other in the van on the way home.

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