Jury Punishes Hospital With Verdict In Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Where Patient Developed Bed Sores During Admission
Have you seen a bed sore? If you haven't, advanced bed sores are truly horrific conditions that are perhaps the most gruesome example of institutional neglect. However, particularly when there are photographs of a gaping wound on a patient's buttocks or heels, many of these cases seem to miraculously get get resolved prior to when they get presented to a jury. Perhaps some of the risk managers and lawyers defending these nursing homes and hospitals are providing useful advice to their clients to: settle, settle, settle? Maybe the 'settle, settle, settle' message got confused in a recent case involving the...
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Nursing Home Chain Hit With Landmark Verdict In Under-Staffing Class Action Lawsuit
I guess there's probably a lot a screaming and yelling going on at the Skilled Healthcare Group (SKH) headquarters in California. Perhaps the anger derives from the miserable looking financial chart for the company showing a whopping 75% decline in price per share in one day! Another portion of the companies anger is probably being misdirected at the lawyers who defended the company in a class action lawsuit brought against Skilled Healthcare based on systematic under-staffing at 22 nursing homes owned by the corporate giant. Really, the only people to blame are the managers in the company who intentionally chose...
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Huge Nursing Home Verdict Tossed Out Because Parent Company Did Not Have Adequate Control Over The Facility
Yesterday, we discussed the nursing-home-name-game, how large nursing home chains attempt to shield themselves from liability by creating a complex array of subsidiary companies and messy corporate structures. Today, we are seeing the fall-out created by this complicated game of corporate re-organization-- how despite that fact that a large corporation makes decisions with respect to operation of a facility, and even derives profits from the facility, it can evade responsibility by re-arranging its corporate structure. In 2007, a New Mexico jury rendered a large verdict ($53 million) against ManorCare after they heard how Barbara Boxer, a patient at a ManorCare...
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Family Seeks Punitive Damages Against Nursing Home For Death Involving Malnourishment Of 84-Year-Old
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Asbury Place Nursing Home by the daughters of Alice Laverne Britton. The lawsuit claims that from the time Britton was admitted to the facility in 2005, she was repeatedly treated improperly by staff at the Tennessee nursing home. Among the nursing home negligence allegations cited in the lawsuit: Malnourishment Dehydration Unskilled nursing home workers dropped Britton resulting in a fractured femur that went untreated Decubitus ulcers (bedsores) that were left untreated until they became severe Failure to monitor medications that caused internal bleeding The executive director for Asbury Inc., the nursing homes...
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Nursing Home Sued Following Death Of Resident In Fall
The family of a woman who died following a fall in a nursing home has filed a lawsuit against the facility alleging the fall caused the woman's death. According to the lawsuit, Ferris McCarthy, a 79-year-old was a resident at the Sunrise Care and Rehab nursing home fell numerous times while a resident at the facility sustaining multiple injuries including: weight loss, dehydration, malnutrition, constipation, infection, a perforated bowel, and ultimately her death. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages from the nursing home and the nursing home's parent company, Sun Healthcare Group. <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/zayc4d3hud" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a> When evaluating whether...
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