Nursing Home Negligence, Wrongful Death
Our client, a resident of a nursing home, developed a bowel impaction that went untreated despite having extreme pain and a long list of symptoms that should have alerted the nursing home facility to his critical condition. After repeated requests for assistance, our client was taken to the hospital. He died shortly after arrival.
A number of corporations had ownership interest in our client’s nursing home facility, so we filed a lawsuit against all of them. Litigating this way, we were able to “pierce the corporate veil,” and prevail on many legal issues. In addition, federal Medicare regulations and state licensing regulations were admitted as evidence of the standard of care in nursing homes.
A team of defense lawyers and law firms represented the multiple defendants and their insurance companies. They denied that their clients had legal responsibility for our client’s fatal injuries. The case settled after three weeks of trial, just before closing arguments in the compensatory phase of the trial. The settlement for our client was fully collectible.