DUBLIN — Santa Rita Jail’s embattled health care provider is expected to pay at least $2.5 million for its role in the 2021 death of Maurice Monk , an inmate who laid motionless in his cell for days before anyone checked him for a pulse.

Wellpath’s settlement — announced Thursday by the attorneys for Monk’s children — follows a separate $7 million payout by Alameda County nearly two year ago, which also called for a series of reforms over how staff checks on inmates at the jail. The latest settlement includes about $2.3 million for Monk’s 22-year-old daughter, along with $250,000 for his 18-year-old son.

On Thursday, an attorney for Monk’s family said the accord came after a protracted fight with the medical provider, which recently emerged from bankruptcy after facing around 1,500 l

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