Washington state has agreed to pay $6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over lapses in the cancer diagnosis and treatment of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex.
Michael Sublett, 64, died of liver cancer in November 2023 after a long period of unnecessary and grievous suffering” following “inexcusable delays” and “dereliction of medical responsibility” by the state Department of Corrections, according to the lawsuit filed by his daughter.
Responding to a grievance Sublett filed as he was dying, a DOC official apologized in writing for delays in reviewing ultrasound findings that could have caught his cancer sooner…