What Should You Do If a Nursing Home Retaliates After a Complaint?
Can a nursing home retaliate against the patient or the patient’s family when a complaint is made? Should not happen. Would not be a wise thing for the facility to do. A matter of fact, what the facility should be doing is bending over backwards to try and assuage the family that their loved one […]
What Evidence Do You Need in a Nursing Home Abuse Case?
Primary evidence in a nursing home case are photographs of your loved one and the medical record. Those are the driving forces. And the other evidence is the oral testimony.
How Do you Assess the Strength of a Nursing Home Abuse Case?
The way I look at it is if everything was done the way it should have been done, what would the patients recovery been? And if the malpractice or the elder abuse was so substantial that it was life altering, those are the cases that, you know, we want to really fight hard for and […]
What Sets The Sanders Law Firm Apart in Nursing Home Abuse Cases?
I think what’s important is every case we handle in the office is a team effort. We are here to protect the interest of the client. We want the client’s input and we will share with them every step of the way. I know myself after I conference a case in court I’ll give the […]
How Long Does a Nursing Home Abuse Case Take to Resolve?
Nursing home cases depending on jurisdiction very very important in Nassau and Suffolk County we should be able to get through a case in 2 to 3 years from the minute you walk in the door till resolution. Some of the nursing home cases, some of these nursing homes are so prone to exposure in […]
Who Can File a Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit?
People that would be eligible to file a nursing home claim are obviously the patient themselves but quite often the patient’s not able to do that. So we would take a next of kin and quite often it’s an adult child. Elderly parents more often than that find themselves in the nursing home setting. Quite […]
How Common is Nursing Home Abuse?
What’s so sad is most of the time patients wind up in nursing homes and quite often it’s the last place they are before they leave us. But it doesn’t mean that they should spend their days without dignity and that’s what we see in the office all too often. Nursing homes have certain protocols […]
An Overview of the Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit Process
Once again, photographs in decubitus ulcer cases are among the most important pieces of evidence. Clients come in with photographs, and we then request the records from the nursing home facility because those records should contain something known as a care plan. Every nursing home patient who comes into the facility should have a skin […]
What to Look For When Choosing an Attorney for a Nursing Home Abuse Case
I think what you need to know is that whoever is going to represent you and your family has a team experienced in doing this type of work. It is very particular. It is also very important in the court system. Does the firm you choose have the reputation? We absolutely do. I know that, […]
How is Compensation Calculated in a Nursing Home Abuse Case?
How is a fee calculated in an elder abuse case? That’s a one-third retainer. The expenses do come out of the client’s share. My firm receives one-third of the monies, and the other two-thirds, after expenses, are borne by the client. But equally as important, if for some odd reason we can’t go forward or […]
What Damages Can You Recover in a Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit?
The prime damages in a nursing home case are pain and suffering, conscious pain and suffering. And that’s the art form of the trial lawyer. The way we do this is through the questioning and answering of witnesses. Obviously, it’s photographs, but it also starts in jury selection, picking the right juror. What is the […]
Can You Recover Punitive Damages From a Nursing Home?
It is possible, though it’s a pretty high standard in the state of New York. You almost have to prove intentional harm. And I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’ve seen in nursing home cases histories of sexual abuse of patients. That’s egregious, and that’s a case that may warrant a punitive request and punitive […]