BOURNEDALE The former owner of the shuttered Scenic View Motel will no longer be liable to pay thousands of dollars in fines for repeat health sanitation violations dating back to 2019.
“We use the fines as a tool in order to get enforcement,” said Stanley Andrews, chair of the Board of Health on Thursday. “We did not get compliance on that site.”
However, the owner had already vacated the site, located at 871 Scenic Highway, and stopped operating as a motel after the fines were assessed, Andrews said.
On Wednesday, a lawsuit filed byformer owner A.J. Michael Realty, LLC against the Bourne Board of Health, asking to reconsider the fines, was dismissed in Barnstable Superior Court by Judge Gregg Pasquale.
BARNSTABLE A medical malpractice tribunal determined there is enough evidence to proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman who hanged herself at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in 2017.
The tribunal ruled last week that there is “sufficient evidence to raise a legitimate question as to liability appropriate for judicial inquiry” for Correctional Psychiatric Services, the third-party vendor that was hired to handle mental health cases at the jail, and several of its employees, in the case filed by the estate of Jessica DiCesare.
DiCesare, a Centerville mother of two, died by suicide in 2017 at the jail in Buzzards Bay while she was awaiting a hearing on charges of receiving stolen property, driving uninsured and without a license and possession of class C and E drugs.
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