Nursing Home Abuse Settlements

nursing home settlement on behalf of the family of an 87-year-old resident who suffered a right femur fracture, skin breakdown and a bone infection which led to her death.

nursing home burn injury settlement for a 67-year-old resident who died from severe burns after her clothing caught fire while she was trying to smoke in her bathroom. Staff failed to create a care plan to address her unsafe smoking behaviors, and failed to provide adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

nursing home settlement for the surviving family of a man who suffered a serious brain injury in a fall at the defendant facility. His injuries contributed to his death six days after his fall.

nursing home settlement on behalf of an 80-year-old Chicago woman who developed infected pressure sores as a result of negligence on the part of staff and her attending physicians.

settlement for a 64-year-old McHenry County woman who developed infected pressure sores and a bone infection that required prolonged long term care stay and surgery.

settlement for the family of a 76-year-old nursing home resident against a Chicago nursing home for failure to appropriately prevent and treat pressure ulcers resulting in gangrene, bilateral leg amputations and death.

verdict plus attorneys’ fees for the family of an 81-year-old man who suffered a serious brain injury after falling out of his wheelchair at the defendant nursing home. He later died from complications linked to his injuries.

settlement for a 75-year-old who suffered a deep tissue injury during an improper transfer at the defendant facility. The wound went untreated and became infected, and eventually required our client to undergo an above-the-knee amputation.

settlement against a home health agency and nursing home for our 54-year-old man who required a below-the-knee amputation after his care providers failed to prevent pressure sores on his leg from deteriorating and failed to properly treat his injuries.

settlement against a nursing home and hospital for a 71-year-old man who developed Stage IV heel pressure sores, resulting in amputation.

settlement against a nursing home in death of a 46-year-old disabled woman who developed multiple infected pressure sores, resulting in death.

negligence settlement against an Evergreen Park, IL nursing home for the family of an 88-year-old woman who developed multiple bed sores at the defendant facility. The sores worsened and her condition deteriorated, causing her death five months after she was first admitted to the facility.

settlement for the family of a 99-year-old woman who died from compressional asphyxia after her neck became entrapped between her bed rail and mattress at the nursing home.

settlement against a Streamwood nursing home for the family of a 78-year-old resident who repeatedly took off her personal alarm, fell on her way to the bathroom and fractured her hip and died four months later from heart problems.

pressure ulcer settlement for the family of a 93-year-old man who died after developing infected decubitus ulcers at the facility as a result of nursing home negligence. Staff failed to provide him with the appropriate pressure relieving devices to prevent pressure sores from forming, and failed to properly assess his skin condition or treat his pressure ulcers once they developed.