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Holding Nursing Homes and Elder Care Facilities Responsible When Things Go Wrong
Schedule A Free Consultation29 Aug 2013
Early morning and you have a LONG day ahead of you. You run out of your house, get behind the wheel of your car and quickly take off down the road. Almost instantly, you are fiddling with the radio trying to find your favorite station. Suddenly your phone rings. As [..]
21 Aug 2013
A nursing home resident, and grandmother of 10, claims she was brutally assaulted at Alaris Health Center in Paterson, New Jersey last Tuesday by a nurse who denied providing her with pain medication for unbearable pain. The grandmother cried out for help after three attempts to contact the nursing station [..]
12 Aug 2013
Medicare, the government agency that pays for most hospital care for those 65 years and older, has defined Stage III and Stage IV pressure ulcers as “Never Events.” As a result, Medicare will no longer pay hospitals for care and treatment provided to a patient who suffers from a Stage [..]
9 Aug 2013
Perhaps the most reprehensible form of elder abuse in nursing homes is allowing continuous suffering. This type of abuse is especially common to Dementia and Alzheimer’s residents. A recent study published by the University of North Carolina found that patients suffering from Dementia or other mental cognitive disabilities were 50% less [..]
7 Aug 2013
This past weekend the New York Times posted a compelling article on their website entitled “In Nursing Homes, An Epidemic of Poor Dental Hygiene.” The article focused on a Virginia nursing home resident who complained to his daughter that he was suffering from severe headaches. After noticing dust on her [..]
Winning Results
$1,400,000
SETTLEMENT
against a nursing home for the choking death of a resident
$1,000,000
SETTLEMENT
against an assisted living facility for injury and wrongful death of a resident
$930,000
VERDICT
against a Middlesex County nursing home for a resident’s pressure ulcers and wrongful death
$3,000,000
SETTLEMENT
settlement for workers with mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis caused by asbestos in the workplace