During a critical two-month period, our client was not bathed, and multiple changes in her condition went uncommunicated, unreported, and untreated. She was eventually transported by ambulance to an emergency room, where her doctors and family discovered a stage IV sacral pressure ulcer.

Our client is an adult with developmental disabilities who is bedridden and unable to speak or move independently. The intermediate care facility where she lived failed to meet its responsibility to protect her safety, well-being, and medical needs. As a result, she developed a stage IV wound.

Prospective residents and their families were unaware that this RCFE chain systematically violated laws and its own policies designed to protect vulnerable elders. The facilities admitted large numbers of high-need residents, including our client, while leaving their care to too few unqualified, inadequately trained, and overburdened caregivers.

Through an extensive investigation, we determined that our client’s death was not caused by a few isolated caregiver mistakes. It resulted from corporate policies that prioritized occupancy and revenue while disregarding staff training, supervision, and the quality of care provided.

While eating dinner at a skilled nursing facility, our client was punched by another resident and later died from his injuries. The attacking resident had lived at the facility for five months and had been involved in numerous altercations, including two within the 24 hours before the fatal assault.

During a roughly ten-week stay at a skilled nursing facility, our client suffered eight falls, lost 20 pounds, and developed an unstageable pressure ulcer on his left heel and a stage II pressure ulcer on his coccyx. After he was transferred to the hospital, he was found to be severely dehydrated. His heel wound required debridement for eschar and gangrene, and the coccyx ulcer was documented for the first time.

Our 84-year-old client was the victim of financial elder abuse involving several transactions, including the purchase of a home. The defendant’s real estate agents, lender, and escrow company failed to protect him during a transaction orchestrated by a woman who fraudulently took his life savings.