A federal judge in Camden has imposed sanctions on an attorney for “extreme carelessness” in taking on a case from another lawyer.

U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle ordered Conrad Benedetto on March 29 to pay certain legal expenses for defendant CFG Health Systems, with the amount yet to be determined. CFG was under contract to provide medical care to prisoners. The company claimed Benedetto was barred from impleading it in a suit he filed in connection with an inmate suicide at the Cumberland County Jail, since claims against the company were dismissed by voluntary stipulation in a previous suit related to the man’s suicide.