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$1,500,000
Neglect Case
“Where the Worry Ends” touts this Home Care Agency’s (“Agency”) website and marketing materials. Unbeknownst to prospective clients and their families, this Agency was willing to recruit scores of clients (such as our client), and leave them at the ...
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$1,300,000
Neglect Case
Our client, a bedbound, non-verbal developmentally disabled adult, was recklessly neglected by those entrusted to protect her from health and safety risks. She wholly relied on others for all of her needs, including her safety and protection from ...
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$1,000,000
Nursing Home Abuse Case
Unbeknownst to prospective residents and their families, this defendant RCFE chain was willing to systematically violate laws and its own policies designed to protect vulnerable elders. Willing to admit scores of profitable, high need residents (such ...
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$875,000
Abandonment Case
Our client was one of the many victims of this RCFE’s corporate empire-building. In this case, facility staff knowingly left this 95-year-old vulnerable elder outside and unattended in the dark, despite their awareness that she was confused and ...
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$775,000
Resident-On-Resident Abuse Case
While eating dinner at a Skilled Nursing Facility, our client was confronted by another resident who punched him, resulting in our client’s tragic death. The other resident had resided at the facility for five months, and over the course of those ...
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$750,000
Lack of Proper Care Case
During our client’s roughly ten-week stay at a skilled nursing facility, he would suffer 8 falls, lose twenty (20) pounds, and develop an unstageable left heel pressure ulcer and a stage II coccyx pressure ulcer due to the facility’s reckless ...
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$678,000
Financial Abuse Case
Our 84-year-old client was the victim of financial elder abuse related to a number of transactions, including the purchase of a home. The Defendant's real estate agents, lender, and escrow company all failed to protect our client throughout the ...
“Where the Worry Ends” touts this Home Care Agency’s (“Agency”) website and marketing materials. Unbeknownst to prospective clients and their families, this Agency was willing to recruit scores of clients (such as our client), and leave them at the mercy of a revolving door of unqualified, unsupervised, and undertrained caregivers.
As the owner of the Agency was discovered to say, “Our biggest challenge is that we acquire clients before we have the caregivers.” Year-over-year turnover of their 200 hundred caregiver positions was a shocking 150 positions or 75%. Our client, who was wheelchair-bound, incontinent of bowel and bladder, and had suffered from Multiple Sclerosis for more than 30 years, was assigned Caregiver(s) with no formal experience, no training on her Care Plan, and almost no supervision.
Even had they been supervised, the caregiver’s Client Care Manager(s), were similarly undertrained, lacked meaningful experience, and gave instructions to caregivers that were not only incongruent but contradictory to our client’s care plan.
As a result of this Agency’s systemic issues, our client and her family’s worries were just beginning. After a critical two months where our client was not bathed and multiple changes of condition went uncommunicated, unreported, and uncared for, she was ambulance out to an Emergency Room, where her doctors and family were shocked to find that she had a stage IV sacral decubitus ulcer.
Our client, a bedbound, non-verbal developmentally disabled adult, was recklessly neglected by those entrusted to protect her from health and safety risks.
She wholly relied on others for all of her needs, including her safety and protection from health and safety risks. The intermediate care facility where she resided neglected their responsibility to ensure her safety, well-being, and necessary medical attention that she required.
As a result, the client suffered a Stage IV wound.
Unbeknownst to prospective residents and their families, this defendant RCFE chain was willing to systematically violate laws and its own policies designed to protect vulnerable elders. Willing to admit scores of profitable, high need residents (such as our client), and leave them at the mercy of a few unqualified, untrained and overburdened caregivers.
And willing to protect their brand at all costs- telling staff not to inform families their facility was understaffed and threatening to fire staff for contacting licensing.
While the facility had carefully cultivated and branded itself to prospective residents as providing “luxury living” – promoting its gorgeous building, “expert staff”, and “world-class chefs”- these outward-facing representations were simply veneered. Internally, staff, directors, and even executives testified that the RCFE’s management company valued profits above care with predictable, tragic results.
This RCFE’s drive to increase occupancy would prove fatal to our client. Staff testified that it was “obvious” that our client, upon admission, had needs that could not be safely met by the facility.
In the month our client resided at the RCFE, despite being deemed a “total care” patient- a prohibited condition under state regulations, he suffered from constant pain, a urinary tract infection, repeated drugging by unlicensed staff without any physician oversight, endured at least five falls, was unlawfully restrained, and remained unassessed with no new interventions despite not eating or drinking for three days.
After being found unresponsive, our client has transferred to the ER where he was diagnosed with severe dehydration and acute renal failure.
Our client was one of the many victims of this RCFE’s corporate empire-building. In this case, facility staff knowingly left this 95-year-old vulnerable elder outside and unattended in the dark, despite their awareness that she was confused and disoriented, had a history of falls and exit seeking behavior, unsteady gait, was visually impaired, needed assistance of a walker to ambulate, and suffered from advanced dementia and osteoporosis.
Not surprisingly, our client suffered an unwitnessed fall, causing a laceration to her right scalp, along with multiple brain contusions with intracranial bleeding. After four days of suffering at the hospital, she died from her injuries.
Through exhaustive investigation, we found that our client’s death was not the result of a few isolated mistakes by care-givers. Rather, it was the result of this corporate facility’s policies prioritizing occupancy and revenue, while ignoring staff training, staff supervision, and the quality of care being delivered.
While eating dinner at a Skilled Nursing Facility, our client was confronted by another resident who punched him, resulting in our client’s tragic death. The other resident had resided at the facility for five months, and over the course of those five months had engaged in numerous altercations with other residents, including two altercations that occurred in the 24-hour period before he assaulted and killed our client.
Prior to his admission at the facility, the other resident had been twice admitted to a locked psychiatric ward for assaultive behavior. Through discovery, we found that no measures were taken to protect other residents from this resident and that he was left, for the most part, unattended and unchecked by the staff. Realizing their failure to protect our client, a series of disturbing acts took place almost immediately after his death.
The police were not called, and our client was immediately moved by staff to his room, thoroughly cleaned, and shipped to the mortuary. While the lawsuit could not bring our client back, it did spurn major changes in the facility.
During our client’s roughly ten-week stay at a skilled nursing facility, he would suffer 8 falls, lose twenty (20) pounds, and develop an unstageable left heel pressure ulcer and a stage II coccyx pressure ulcer due to the facility’s reckless neglect. He was transferred to the hospital, where he was found severely dehydrated, his left heel wound required debridement for eschar and gangrene, and for the first time, a stage II coccyx ulcer was identified.
Our 84-year-old client was the victim of financial elder abuse related to a number of transactions, including the purchase of a home. The Defendant’s real estate agents, lender, and escrow company all failed to protect our client throughout the process of purchasing the home, which was orchestrated by a woman who fraudulently siphoned off our client’s entire life savings. After trial, our client was awarded $678,000, which included complete compensation for his losses.
