July 2017 Case Selection: Nursing home litigation requires careful case selection. Like other professional negligence cases, the liability must be clear and the injury significant. And the plaintiff must be likeable. Ideally, the plaintiff’s family must also be likeable and the family must have been involved with the plaintiff with a consistent pattern of visitation. […]

The difficult decision to place a loved one in a nursing home is frequently made under stressful circumstances and is always fraught with emotion. Mandatory arbitration agreements are often overlooked or not given appropriate consideration in the completion of the thicket of admission forms. These provisions, which substantially deprive a nursing home resident of meaningful […]

November 2001 You are the knight riding the white horse. There are few areas of personal injury which allow plaintiff lawyers to be viewed by most jury pools as good, important and beneficial for society. Representing the elderly in meritorious nursing home cases is just that. Most of us feel sick to our stomach when […]