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A former coroner's office investigator has accepted a reduction of a jury's award of $8.4 million in her whistleblower suit against LA County in which she said she was forced into early retirement in 2017 in retaliation for raising suspicions about the death of an 8-year-old disabled boy.

A judge has given a former coroner's office investigator the option of accepting a reduction of a jury's award of $8.4 million in her whistleblower suit against LA County, in which she said she was forced into early retirement.

Denise Bertone claimed she was demoted because she spoke out about the cause of death of a disabled boy in 2013. She says he overdosed after a doctor gave him a fatal dose. Her bosses said he drowned.

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