Settlements


Below is a sample of settlements, arbitration awards and jury verdicts
involving nursing home abuse and neglect cases across the Country in the
last 10 years:

$12 million
A female resident was sexually assaulted by a male resident.

Jury awarded $100,000
Fall from wheelchair: Subdural hematoma: Wrongful death

$10 million
89-year-old resident's leg was amputated as the result of the collapse of a neglected infection.

$525,000
92-year-old resident suffered amputation of her leg from neglect.
4/98

$125,000
95-year-old resident fell and fractured her hip.
3/98

$250,000
leg amputation

$901,478
Lethal overdose 7/99

$337,500
82-year-old female resident neglect.
3/97

$1.6 Million
neglect of 63-year-old resident. fractured hip.

$650,000
80-year-old patient wandered away from the defendant's facility and drowned.

The jury awarded $250,000
Fall on bathroom floor: Subdural hematoma: Wrongful death

Jury awarded $2.5 million
Patient strangles on safety-vest restraint

$2,050,000
71-year-old male resident victim of neglect
5/99

$700,000
67-year-old female died after being locked out.

$900,000 (Settlement)
74-year-old fall down.