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PROVEN RESULTS: $1.2 Million for verbal abuse and assault

Our office represents victims of Nursing home Abuse, like the 86 yr old gentleman who was assaulted by Bernadette Stackpole at the Franklin Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Franklin is owned/operated by Kindred Healthcare. Hamill law offices represented three families of elder victims at Franklin in lkitigation. Two of the cases went to verdict and resulted in awards to the families of $300,000 and $450,000 respectively for verbal and physical abuse. A third went to Trial in late 2008 in Norfolk Superior Court and resulted in a $425,000 payment by Kindred. Stackpole was convicted of Criminal Abuse of Elders in Norfolk Superior Court in February 2006. The total payout by Kindred for verbal and physical abuse was almost $1.2 Million.

Click here to read about the Norfolk Jury Trial. Click here to read the Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit Complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court.

Has a family member been injured, mistreated or hurt while in a nursing Home?

If so we can help you. We have the knowledge, the resources, the tenacity and the experience to help you and give you answers. We have a proven track record of results from litigating tough cases and getting exceptional results.

1 in 10 Nursing Home Residents have Bedsores: Read Report

Failure to routinely move and change a patients position can result in STAGE FOUR bedsores causing pain and even wrongful death. If you know an elder who has been injured in a nursing home you should seek the immediate help of an experienced nursing home abuse attorney. Negligence and abuse in nursing care facilities has become too common. Nursing homes commit violations of law on a daily basis, and many elders are the victims of this abuse and neglect. Let us be your advocates for the safety of those who need our protection the most. We advocate and litigate for these most helpless victims. Please visit our Elder resource page.

Federal and Massachusetts laws governing nursing homes give you rights to seek monetary damages. Nursing home abuse is medical malpractice. Mistreatment of helpless dependant elders is unacceptible and we have devoted a substantial portion of our practice to eradicating mistreatment of nursing home residents. We are members of the exclusive "Nursing Home Litigation" section of the AAJ (the Amercian Association for Justice). We attend the latest seminars and actively litigate Nursing Home cases using 'cutting edge' techniques. No expense is spared to prosecute these cases to bring wrongdoers to jusitce.

Have they suffered from bed sores or decubitus ulcers?

Nursing Home Abuse may include:
- Assault or battery by Employees (see abuse case story)
- Assault or battery by other Patients
- Unnecessary physical restraint
- Insufficient food or water
- Improper medication
- excessive force or threats
- ridicule, verbal abuse
- rough treatment (SEE OUR RECENT VERDICTS)
- signs of abuse: Unexplained bruises or cuts, torn or bloody clothing, broken bones
- Use of Restraints for Discipline or Convenience
- patient upon patient assaults and abuse
- emotional abuse including: threats, humiliation
- rapes or sexual assaults: signs can include bleeding/bruises in the genital or anal area

Has their care been substandard?

Nursing Home Neglect includes:
- Failure to provide proper personal hygiene
- Failure to provide sufficient medical attention
- Failure to protect from safety hazards
- Failure to prevent bed sores
- Stage four bed sores
- Pressure sores
- decubitus ulcers
- wrongful death
- Hip fractures
- Allowing a resident to slip or fall
- Bed Rail Entrapment
- Broken Bones
- Malnutrition, starvation, significant weight loss
- Medications not being administered
- Soiled clothing or unchanged diapers etc.
- Malnourishment/dehydration

You have rights in a nursing home. If you have been harmed by their care you may be entitled to monetary compensation. Verdicts for Elders suffering Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect show a dramatic rise in the Plaintiffs success rate as well as a large increase in the dollar award amount of the average Nursing Home Verdict.

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