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Employer deemed negligent through missing instructions and the actions of security guards

A government employer has been ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in damages to a worker injured by an agitated and aggressive client, with a court finding it was negligent through the failures of two security guards who let the worker help them restrain the client.

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