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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. For example, 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.
Nursing Home Abuse
may include:
- Assault or battery by Employees
- 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)
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
- Use of Restraints for Discipline or Convenience
- patient upon patient assaults and abuse
- rapes or sexual assaults
You have rights in a nursing home.
If you have been harmed by their care you may be entitled to monetary
compensation. Our office represents victims of Nursing home Abuse,
like the 86 yr old gentleman who was sexually molested by Bernadette
Stackpole at the Franklin
Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Franklin was
owned/operated by Kindred Healthcare. Stackpole was convicted of
Criminal Abuse of Elders in Norfolk Superior Court in February 2006.
Hamill law offices currently represents three families of
elder victims at Franklin. Click here to read the Nursing
Home Abuse Lawsuit Complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court.
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.
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.
Our office is handling Nursing Home abuse
and bedsore cases against
some of the largest Nursing Home chains in America including Epoch
and Kindred Healthcare. If you feel that you or your loved
one has been injured as a result of nursing
home abuse please call 1-617-479-4300 or use our free case
evaluation form below:
An Attorney
will speak with you now at 617-479-4300
or use this form:
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