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Schedule A Free Consultation25 Feb 2015
Nursing home abuse often goes overlooked because patients may be scared to report abuse or neglect. Even when elderly residents have loving family members close by, sometimes the unspeakable happens anyway. Such is the case of a 68-year-old nursing home patient Maureen Doren, who died after being neglected, according to [..]
20 Feb 2015
If you or a loved one have been the victim of a medical error, mistake, or injury – Call the Law Office of Barry Sugarman (866-657-5660) today for a free consultation and to get the compensation you deserve!
17 Feb 2015
If medical errors were classified as a disease, it would be the sixth leading cause of death. Some reports rank this as high as number three. The US Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act in 2005 in an attempt to curtail the [..]
11 Feb 2015
Emotional Abuse of the Elderly…It’s Real, It Hurts, and It’s Potentially Fatal! When I speak with clients and community groups about nursing home abuse, the first thing they mention is rough treatment and physical signs of abuse that leave visible bruises. They are right, but there’s more to it than [..]
9 Feb 2015
When medical mistakes happen in hospitals, the results can be disastrous. And, the numbers are steadily rising. Consider that the last time the Institute of Medicine issued a report cataloguing medical errors (1999), it estimated that around 100,000 people die each year after they’ve been the victim of a medical [..]
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against a nursing home for the choking death of a resident
$1,000,000
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against an assisted living facility for injury and wrongful death of a resident
$930,000
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against a Middlesex County nursing home for a resident’s pressure ulcers and wrongful death
$3,000,000
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