Personal Injury Case Results – Nursing Home Injuries and Abuse

Nursing Home Injury; Nursing Home Fall Case. $100,000 Dollars

The plaintiff, a 90-year-old male with increasing dementia, was a placed in a Massachusetts long-term care facility after multiple falls at home made it impossible for his elderly spouse to safely care for him. Upon admission to the nursing home, a care plan was developed, which provided for safety measures due to his high fall risk, including sensor alarms on his bed and wheelchair and a wanderguard placed around his ankle.
Trial report for this nursing home fall case.

Nursing Home Burn Injury Case. $68,700 Dollars

On February 21, 1997, the plaintiff’s decedent, a 92-year-old resident of the defendant nursing home, was seated in her wheelchair, located at the entrance to her bedroom. As she waited for her private care attendant to return with a pillow, a rolling food cart, being pushed by an employee of the defendant nursing home, suddenly struck her wheelchair. As a result of the collision between the food cart and the plaintiff’s wheelchair, a carafe of scalding coffee, which had been placed atop the food cart, toppled, dousing the plaintiff’s back with scalding coffee.
Trial report for this nursing home negligence case.

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