Nursing Home Abuse (Elder Abuse)
An increasing elderly population has led
to an increased nursing home population, and with this has
come an increased incidence of nursing home negligence and
abuse. Governmental agencies such as the Center for Medicare & Medicaid
Services help oversee the care and services provided by nursing
homes and both federal and state governments have established
uniform standards for nursing homes and ensure the protection
and safety of patients.
Unfortunately, despite these governmental agencies, over one
million nursing home residents are abused in some manner each
year. Such actions can include negligence and active abuse. Whether
the abuse consists of recurrent negligence or a single incident
which causes injury, the victim has a right to damages. In most
cases, the nursing home in question can lose its certification
for failing to supply the expected care leading to a loss of
federal funding.
Nursing home abuse can include physical damage from falls, malnutrition
or dehydration, bed sores, gangrene, aspiration pneumonia, over-sedation,
poor medical care, or wrong medication. Just as damaging but
more subtle, are lack of supervision, theft, abandonment, defective
equipment, sexual assault, coercion, physical or mental abuse.
All of these can lead to injury or death of the nursing home
patient.
What You Need To Know:
Insurance companies' obligations are to their stockholders and
policy holders, not to the people injured by their insured's
negligence. Insurance companies' desire to maximize their own
profits provides them with every motivation to try to deny your
claim or pay you the very minimum amount that they can get away
with. The insurance companies also have enormous advantages:
they have immense wealth, armies of experienced adjusters and
lawyers and years of experience reducing and denying claims.
At the Law Office of Stephen A. Burroughs,
our only obligation is to you, our client. We will use our experience
and every resource available to protect your interests, and we
will work hard to help you receive the full value for your case.
We will advise you every step of the way to help you avoid any
mistakes that could cost you money. There is no charge for attorney's
fees until you recover money for your personal injuries, and
we will also help you resolve your property damage claims for
no fee whatsoever. For assistance, call today at 1-877-300-3773, contact
us or submit
an free online case evaluation.
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