When a loved one must enter a nursing home, the family hopes and expects that the nursing home will adequately care for that individual. However, injuries and death due to abuse and neglect occur too often in nursing homes.

Whether because the nursing homes are understaffed or the staff is not properly trained or the facilities are not cared for, it is the vulnerable residents that are at risk. Signs of abuse and neglect can include bedsores, falls, abrasions, lacerations, bone fractures, burns, and disfigurement, malnutrition and dehydration, and physical or sexual abuse by staff or other patients. Nursing homes should have adequate staffing so that they can respond to the needs of all of their residents when called upon and adequately care for even the most difficult cases.

A nursing home has a duty to keep the residents safe. If a nursing home violates this, they can be responsible for the damages caused, including pain and suffering to the resident, the loss of a loved one in the event of death, as well as attorney’s fees and costs, and possibly even punitive damages.

The attorneys at the law firm of Rue & Ziffra, P.A., are talented trial lawyers who have handled numerous nursing home neglect cases over three decades in practice. These cases are complex and require an intimate knowledge of the nursing home industry, and are best handled by experienced nursing home negligence lawyers. With extensive expertise in this area of the law, our attorneys have recovered significant awards for our clients and are respected by the judges they come in front of and other members of the bar. Our lawyers understand both the legal and the nursing home-related issues and nuances that are necessary to secure a winning verdict in a nursing home neglect case.

 

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