Over the past few months, we’ve seen a steady stream of massive jury verdicts in cases involving wrongful death and nursing home abuse at skilled nursing facilities across the country. After seeing some of the figures, you may be tempted to throw your hands up in desperation and think that perhaps someone is slipping the jurors… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: punitive damages
$8 Million Verdict Handed To Nursing Home After They Play Dumb About The Origin Of Patient’s Injuries
Posted in Dropped PatientsFollowing a two week trial and several hours of deliberations, a Kentucky jury has awarded the family of a deceased nursing home patient $8 million in damages for the errors made related to the care of the patient during an admission in 2008. Categorically, the damages were apportioned: $2 million for pain and suffering, $1… Continue Reading
Nursing Home’s Conduct In Wrongful Death Case Angers Jury—- To The Tune Of $200 Million
Posted in Elopement & Wandering, Litigation, Wrongful DeathAfter hearing the evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit involving an elderly woman’s fall at a Florida Nursing Home, a jury became so enraged by the conduct of the facility— that they chose to punish them the only way they could– by handing down a huge verdict against the facility. The trial centered around the… Continue Reading
How Much Money Does Manor Care Really Make?
Posted in Litigation, ManorCareWe’ve had a lot of discussion regarding the sizable nursing home negligence verdict in West Virginia against Heartland of Charleston and the parent company HCR Manor Care. If you haven’t heard about this landmark nursing home verdict, jurors awarded $91.5 million to the family of a patient at the facility who died shortly after her… Continue Reading
Jury Blames Manor Care Nursing Home For Dehydration Death Of Patient
Posted in Dehydration, Dementia / Alzheimer's Patients, ManorCareAfter just two hours of deliberation, a West Virginia jury has awarded a family of a deceased woman $91.5 million in damages against Heartland of Charleston, a Manor Care facility. The verdict is comprised of $11.5 million in compensatory damages and $80 million in punitive damages against the facility. The nursing home lawsuit alleged that… Continue Reading
Jury Punishes Hospital With Verdict In Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Where Patient Developed Bed Sores During Admission
Posted in Bed Sore Lawsuit, Bed Sores, Pressure Sores, Decubitus Ulcers & Pressure Ulcers, Hospital Bed Sores, Medical MalpracticeHave 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… Continue Reading
New Illinois Court Decision Holds That No Punitive Damages Can Be Awarded In Survival Actions Involving Nursing Home Negligence
Posted in Illinois Nursing Homes, Litigation, Wrongful DeathSome of the substantial verdicts we have recently discussed at the Nursing Homes Abuse Blog here and here involve jury verdicts with punitive damage components. While some of these verdicts may seem excessive, most of the time the damages are awarded because the facilities conduct was so extreme that it deserves to be punished. In most jurisdictions,… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Chain Hit With Landmark Verdict In Under-Staffing Class Action Lawsuit
Posted in Litigation, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home StaffI 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… Continue Reading
$5 Million In Punitive Damages Awarded To Widow In Bed Sore Case Against Nursing Home & Hospital
Posted in Bed Sore Lawsuit, Bed Sores, Pressure Sores, Decubitus Ulcers & Pressure Ulcers, Hospital Bed SoresA Philadelphia jury awarded $5 million in punitive damages to the widow of a man who died from bed sores he developed during a hospitalization and then worsened during a subsequent nursing home admission. The case, believed to be the first of its kind in terms of awarding punitive damages against a nursing home… Continue Reading
New York Jury Punishes Nursing Home Where Man Develops More Than 20 Bed Sores
Posted in Bed Sore Lawsuit, LitigationIt never fails to amaze me. Frequently, when I tell people about some of the cases I work on involving bed sores, I only to get a ‘so what?’ reaction from them. Are the people who surround me heartless? Maybe some of them (just joking, honey)? Nonetheless, the reality is that most people have no… Continue Reading
Huge Nursing Home Verdict Tossed Out Because Parent Company Did Not Have Adequate Control Over The Facility
Posted in Litigation, ManorCareYesterday, 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… Continue Reading
Failure To Conduct Adequate Pre-Employment Criminal Background Search Costs Assisted Living Facilty $750,000
Posted in LitigationA jury awarded $750,000 to a disabled man who was a resident at Cote De Neige Home for Adults after he was sexually assaulted by a worker at the facility. The lawsuit was brought against the assisted living facility for their failure to conduct an adequate pre-hiring background search before hiring a certified nursing assistant. … Continue Reading
Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed Against Extendicare
Posted in LitigationRicky Hamilton, the husband of Kimberly Hamilton, has filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against Kenwood Nursing Home and the facilities parent company, Extendicare in Madison Circuit Court. The lawsuit alleges the nursing home deviated from acceptable standards of care and failed to maintain a safe environment. The lawsuit made a ‘jury demand’ and seeks… Continue Reading
Family Seeks Punitive Damages Against Nursing Home For Death Involving Malnourishment Of 84-Year-Old
Posted in LitigationA 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… Continue Reading
Nursing Home Sued Following Death Of Resident In Fall
Posted in Litigation, Nursing Home FallsThe 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… Continue Reading
Big Verdicts Against Nursing Homes
Posted in LitigationNursing home owners take note: no longer can providing poor care to elderly nursing home residents be part of ‘doing business.’ Take a look at some recent jury verdicts involving nursing home abuse and neglect. Imagine the owner of a nursing home writing these types of checks…. $324,000,000 Texas, Over $300 million in punitive damages… Continue Reading
Jury Awards $2.1 Million To Family Of Dead Nurisng Home Resident
Posted in LitigationA Texas jury found CLC Richland Hills nursing home and its medical director responsible for the death of a 79-year old woman. The woman entered the facility for rehabilitation following a fall. During the course of her stay, she developed a urinary tract infection which went untreated by the nursing home staff. Not only did… Continue Reading
Damages
Posted in Litigation‘Damages’ refer to losses sustained do to physical or psychological injury for which you can be compensated. In cases involving injury or death, damages are assessed in terms of money compensation. In order to recover damages, you first must establish that an employee of a nursing home or the facility itself did something wrong or… Continue Reading