CLEVELAND, Ohio — The family of a Cuyahoga County Jail inmate who died of a combination of medication settled their lawsuit against the county and MetroHealth Medical Center for $500,000.

MetroHealth agreed to pay $300,000 and Cuyahoga County $200,000 to Mark Turner ’s family, county and hospital officials said. Cuyahoga County Council must sign off on the settlement for it to become official.

Turner’s family accused MetroHealth officials of negligence and county jail officers of failing to make required checks on Turner before he fell unconscious and died on Nov. 1, 2022.

Neither Cuyahoga County nor MetroHealth officials commented on the lawsuit.

Turner, 32, was the second inmate to die that day and one of five inmates who died in 2022. MetroHealth took over handling all health care

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