Recent Posts in Wrongful Death Category
Posted on Feb 21, 2012
A nursing home neglect case has reportedly been filed in regard to a fall during a lift into a bed. According to reports, it is being alleged that staff members were negligent when they tried to ...
Posted on Feb 10, 2012
A family has reportedly filed a nursing home abuse and wrongful death lawsuit over the disappearance and death of an elderly patient. According to reports, the man was a dementia patient who went ...
Posted on Feb 6, 2012
A Tampa, Florida law firm has won a major lawsuit in regard to a patient’s death at a nursing home. According to reports, $200 million was awarded in a case where a woman fell to her death while ...
Posted on Feb 3, 2012
An elder abuse case has reportedly resulted in a $1.3 million judgment against a Torrance, California assisted living facility. According to reports, the company was found guilty of elder abuse and ...
Posted on Oct 4, 2011
The Birmingham News, from Alabama, has reported that a lawsuit, filed against a county-run nursing home, cites cost-cutting measures that allegedly led to the wrongful death of a patient. The suit is ...
Posted on Sep 26, 2011
A $1.3 million judgment was made against an assisted living facility in the Torrance, California area in regard to elder abuse . According to reports, the elder abuse situation led to a wrongful death ...
Posted on Jun 26, 2011
A woman in the Winfield, West Virginia area has reportedly filed a lawsuit in regard to her husband's death. According to reports, the woman is suing a nursing home for negligence and wrongful death . ...
Posted on May 14, 2011
A wrongful death and elder abuse case may skip going to trial and be settled out of court. According to reports, the matter involves two elderly patients, one who died and another who lost her leg in ...
Posted on Apr 20, 2011
A lawsuit has reportedly been filed against a nursing home in the Cook County, Illinois area claiming that neglect resulted in the death of a resident. According to reports, the wife of the deceased ...
Posted on Mar 1, 2011
A Georgia nursing home neglect lawsuit has reportedly resulted in a $9.5 million verdict. According to reports, the wrongful death lawsuit was filed over the failure to treat multiple pressure ulcers ...
Posted on Feb 16, 2011
The Everett Rehabilitation and Care Center, owned by the Sunbridge Health Care Corp. Inc., has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of a deceased 97-year-old man for the inadequate care they ...
Posted on Jan 17, 2011
When a video camera approved for use by a nursing home was often found unplugged, Sean Suh decided to move his grandmother, Kyong Hui Duncan, to another facility. A lawsuit now alleges that Duncan ...
Posted on Dec 15, 2010
After falling from the hands of her caregiver, and in front of her three daughters, Esther Rannow, a 91 year-old resident at Benedictine Living Community in St. Peter, passed out into a wheelchair and ...
Posted on Dec 9, 2010
A Nevada nursing home has reportedly settled on a wrongful death case. The patient reportedly died from severe dehydration, infection and other complications that occurred at the facility. It was ...
Posted on Nov 17, 2010
Staff at DFW Nursing and Rehab spent seven minutes deciding whether or not to revive the lifeless Evan Fleming, 23, before they began life-saving CPR efforts, as reported by the Star Telegram in Fort ...
Posted on Nov 1, 2010
Merle Fall, a dementia patient in the Ridgeland Pointe Senior Living Community nursing home, died after following through on her threat to jump from a second-story window, as reported by the Clarion ...