Nursing Home Abuse Settlements

nursing home negligence settlement on behalf of the surviving family of a 63-year-old nursing home resident who died when nursing home staff failed to properly administer medication prescribed to him to treat his gastrointestinal cancer and failed to ensure that he made follow-up visits with his oncologist. As a result of these failures, his cancer spread and caused his death.

nursing home lawsuit settlement for the family of a former Lincolnwood resident who died after suffering a stroke as a result of the nursing home’s failure to properly administer her blood-thinning medication.

settlement against a nursing home whose failure to monitor a 58-year-old wheelchair- bound resident’s unauthorized smoking caused the resident to sustain severe burns, resulting in death.

settlement against a nursing home that failed to appropriately feed and hydrate a 76-year-old resident, leading to his malnutrition, dehydration and death.

settlement for a 74-year-old nursing home resident who suffered a serious brain injury in a fall at the Defendant nursing home. The lawsuit alleged that the facility failed to appropriately develop, implement and revise a care plan to address our client’s fall potential and failed to ensure that he received appropriate supervision and assistive devices to prevent nursing home falls.

settlement for the family of an 81-year-old nursing home resident against two nursing homes. One Chicago nursing home failed to prevent the resident from falling and sustaining a hip fracture. The other, Forest Park nursing home failed to prevent the formation of and worsening of multiple pressure ulcers, including multiple Stage IV pressure ulcers.

settlement for a nursing home resident who contracted MRSA as a result of staff negligence while living at the defendant facility, causing him to undergo additional surgeries and amputation.

policy limit settlement for a 61-year-old nursing home resident who suffocated to death because nursing home staff failed to properly place his tracheostomy tube.

settlement against a nursing home for a woman who fell from her bed, resulting in a subdural hematoma and death.

settlement for the daughter of a former nursing home resident who suffered at least six falls during her residency. The facility failed to create any care plan to address her risk for falls until after her last fall, in which her eye burst, requiring an eye enucleation surgery. Her conditioned declined significantly after this surgery and she died one month later.

settlement for a 75-year-old nursing home resident with dementia and a history of wandering who died of hypothermia after exiting the facility in bitter cold temperatures resulting from the home’s failure to verify if his tracking bracelet was functioning, properly supervise him, and promptly notify the police.

nursing home settlement for the family of an 86-year-old woman who fell in her bathroom at the nursing home and sustained a cervical spine fracture which contributed her death nine days later.

settlement for the family of a 56-year-old nursing home resident who suffered a hip fracture in fall at the facility. After his fall, he developed a number of bed sores, a chronic bone infection and became malnourished, all of which led to a deterioration in his condition.

settlement against a Chicago nursing home for failing to appropriately monitor an 88-year-old patient’s hydration levels after a fall, causing severe pain, appetite loss, severe dehydration and death.

settlement against a Lincolnshire, Illinois intermediate care facility for failing to appropriately supervise a 32-year-old mentally disabled woman on a facility outing where she choked to death.