Court Determines Nursing Home Corporation Can't Be Criminally Prosecuted For Employees' Negligent Conduct
The collective negligence of multiple nursing home employees does not impute criminal conduct on the part of the corporate owner according to a recent ruling made the Supreme Judicial Court-- the highest court in Massachusetts. The decision stems from the death of a 74-year-old patient at a MA nursing home owned by Life Care Centers of America. Despite the patient's extensive history with respect to wandering from the facility, the facility failed to take basic precautionary measures that would likely prevented the wheelchair-bound patient from falling down a set of stairs to her death. An investigation into the patient's death...
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Nursing Home Operator And CNA's Named As Defendants In Civil Lawsuit After Sex Abuse Scandal
After the well publicized abuse of elderly patients at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Minnesota, some of the patients who were victimized have filed a civil lawsuit against the nursing home and the individual nurses involved. Prosecutors have already filed criminal charges against two young woman who tormented many of the Alzheimer's and dementia patients they were responsible for caring for. The criminal investigation revealed that these derelict CNA's were repeatedly abusing Good Samaritan patients over a six month period in 2008. While employers are generally not responsible for the intentional acts of their employees, lawyers for the nursing...
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