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Friday, April 10, 2015
State and Local Stories
As Richmond finance workers and outside auditors race to finish a routine financial report that was due to the state by Nov. 30, the costs associated with the delay are mounting. The city’s anticipated payments to a Las Vegas-based consultant hired on an emergency basis in July to ensure the timely completion of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report have risen from $95,000 to $295,000 under a contract extension approved last month. Meanwhile, city officials say they are bracing for overage on a $320,000 base contract with the firm hired to audit Richmond’s financials and expect to pay a higher rate for the same services next year.
Times-Dispatch
Virginia Beach jail’s former medical provider agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by the family of an inmate who died under unusual circumstances almost four years ago, according to a confidential settlement released after a court fight. Conmed Inc. and the family of Jacquelynn Schwartz agreed in June to the settlement, which included no admittance of liability by the medical provider or the three nurses named in the suit. The parties deemed the agreement confidential, and it wasn’t included in the court record in Newport News Circuit Court, where the action was filed. nmed fought back, saying it planned to appeal all the way to the Virginia Supreme Court. The company withdrew the pending appeal last month and added the settlement agreement to the file. The document included no new details about the case but included a confidentiality clause barring the parties and their representatives from discussing it other than to say it had been resolved.
Virginian-Pilot
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