Nursing Home Abuse Settlements

settlement for failure to properly care plan for and monitor a wheelchair bound resident’s risk of strangulation resulting in death.

settlement on behalf of a quadriplegic that developed severe pressure sores that his nursing home claimed were unavoidable. After leaving the home, it took one year for the sores to heal and they have not returned.

verdict against assisted living facility who admitted liability for failing to give a proper mechanical soft diet due to understaffing and poorly trained staff resulting in choking and death of a 67 year old man.

Cook County Jury Verdict for the family of a 54-year-old nursing home resident who exited a window on the fifth floor of the nursing home and died from fall-related injuries. The jury found that the nursing home was negligent in failing to prevent the resident from exiting the window.

settlement against a nursing home for a 75-year-old resident who suffered malnutrition, dehydration and Stage IV pressure sores, resulting in death.

record Lake County settlement for an 83-year-old nursing home resident who fell several times while a resident at the nursing home, with the last fall contributing to her death. Despite her risk for falls, the nursing home neglected to implement changes in her care plan to prevent further falls from occurring.

settlement against a Chicago facility on behalf of the family of an 82-year-old man who suffered a fatal brain injury in a fall at the nursing home.

ManorCare nursing home settlement for the family of an 80-year-old nursing home resident who developed multiple stage IV pressure sores that contributed to the cause of her death.

nursing home negligence settlement against a Chicago nursing home and physician for the family of a 34-year-old woman who bled to death when the staff failed to properly monitor her condition or report changes in her condition to her physician.

settlement against a Joliet nursing home for the mother of a 45-year-old nursing home resident with schizophrenia and alcoholism who died as a result of a gastric ulcer which perforated a vein and caused a hemorrhage. Signs and symptoms of the gastric ulcer, present two weeks prior to the resident’s death, were not reported to the resident’s physician.

settlement for the family of an 81-year-old nursing home resident in a wheelchair who fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a subdural hematoma and died seven months later.

settlement against an Evergreen Park nursing which has subsequently been shut down by the State of Illinois for a 91-year-old nursing home resident who over a three year period suffered from malnutrition and dehydration sustaining a body loss of 1/3 of her total weight within the last three months, causing a hospitalization and death.

settlement against a nursing home for allowing an 85-year-old woman with dementia to wander outside the nursing home, where she froze to death.

settlement on behalf of the family of an 86-year-old nursing home resident who was so badly neglected that she became malnourished and dehydrated, and developed severely infected bed sores that caused an infection in her bone and in her blood, and resulted in her death.

nursing home neglect settlement for the son of a 54-year-old resident who died as a result of the nursing home’s failure to properly monitor his condition or transfer him to the hospital during a hypertensive crisis.