Nurse, attorney file $5 million lawsuit against JMH, MDSO after brutal attack by patient

A registered nurse who was left traumatized after a brutal attack by a patient at Jackson Memorial Hospital is now taking legal action after the harrowing incident. Yanira Eguileor and her attorney, Michael Pizzi, filed a lawsuit against the hospital and the Miami-Dade Sheriff s Office on Tuesday. Pizzi claims both organizations refused to protect her client. “We filed a $5 million lawsuit against Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Miami-Dade Sheriff s Office for being negligent, knowing for the risks, knowing for the dangers, and yet allowing this to happen,” said Pizzi. He explained the reasoning behind the lawsuit filed against both organizations. The Sheriff s Office contributed to the negligence by agreeing to provide training and police officers as security personnel, but then not properly training them for this task or ensuring that they provided the much-needed safety concerns, said Pizzi. Jackson was aware for decades of the certainty of these types of violent an