Sizeable Settlement: Biggest State Legal Payment Goes to Victim of Patient Abuse

It’s the biggest legal payment ever made to an individual by our state – all connected to reports by NBC Connecticut Investigates about patient abuse at Connecticut’s maximum security psychiatric hospital. We’re talking about the case of Bill Shehadi, who has been at the Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown since 1995. A judge has signed off on a $9 million…