Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Nursing home abuse and neglect should not be tolerated in our society as the elderly and vulnerable need more protection and even better care than the young and healthy.
Unfortunately, Nursing Home abuse and neglect does frequently occur in Connecticut and because those affected are often old and sick to begin with not immediately recognized as having occurred. The legal actionable injury cases in this area may include a wide variety of different bad outcomes which occur more frequently in the presence of physician or nursing staff negligence.
Some of the more recognized injuries and conditions include misdiagnosis, failure to refer to a specialist or monitor, falls resulting in serious and disabling fractures, the development of bed sores due to the failure to follow patient position change protocol, wrong medical treatment, failure to provide adequate ongoing care, wound care treatment failures, even improper nutrition and feeding protocol resulting in death. Sometimes the behavior involved is inexplicable and cold hearted.
Getting legal help early is perhaps the single most important thing you can do. Strict Statute of Limitation periods apply and there is much advance preparation including the securing of supportive medical expert opinion that needs to occur prior to filing a case.
My firm has been involved in the investigation of many different types of injury circumstances which fall under this category. We are presently pursing a wrongful death claim on behalf of a family whose father went into a nursing home to rehabilitate himself and suffered a fall with an attendant hip fracture that due to his age and condition proved fatal.
We have also dealt with wound care infection issues and bed sores occuring due to patient neglect. I have worked with some of the leading medical experts in the medical field and pursue these types of cases, when justified, strictly on a contingency fee basis and advance all costs of investigation which you are not responsible for unless we recover a Judgment or settlement on your behalf.
"The profession of law is not just a business. It transcends a mere occupation. It is a lifelong communal pursuit of justice."
Justice Peter T. Zarella
