What Brings You To The Nursing Home? The Answers May Surprise You?
Unknown to many, there are people in nursing homes that require skilled nursing care for reasons aside from old-age and de-conditioning. A substantial number of nursing home patients require short-term and long-term care due to various types of personal injuries and conditions related to negligence of others. In some circumstances, we have successfully prosecuted many ancillary cases despite the fact that we may have been initially contacted to investigate a situation involving nursing home abuse or neglect. Below is a sampling of the personal injury matters we have prosecuted on behalf of nursing home patients. Medical Malpractice: Errors made by...
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Nursing Home Patients Involved In Automobile Accidents: Who's To Blame?
If you were playing a word association game, I bet you'd be hard pressed to combine nursing home patients and car accidents! While the terms may mix like oil and water in many contexts, in my world as a nursing home lawyer I frequently see the two intermixed-- and the the results certainly don't favor the patients. In my nursing home ligation practice, I see many cases where nursing home patients are horribly injured in car accidents either as pedestrians or as passengers. While most think about nursing home patients passing time in an idyllic setting, the truth is that...
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Ambulance Accident Claims The Life Of A Nursing Home Patient After Dialysis Treatment
I was recently emailed a news story involving a 78-year-old patient at Lakeshore Nursing Home in Nashville, TN who died when the ambulance in which she was a passenger, collided with a truck parked on the shoulder of the road. The victim identified as Sue Bly, was being transported back to her nursing home in the back of a Rural / Metro ambulance from dialysis treatment. In addition to the death of Ms. Bly, the ambulance driver also died in the accident. Apparently, the ambulance driver drove into a Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) truck that was parked on...
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