Nursing Home & Long Term Care
A $6.8 Million Nursing Home Understaffing Verdict: How Staffing Became the Case
A Dutchess County jury held a 62-bed New York nursing home and its owners liable for chronic understaffing in a resident class action. Tracy Liberatore, Esq. on the staffing records and nurse experts that decide these cases for either side.
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The Conflict Check Most Law Firms Skip at Intake (and the Names It Misses)
At a CLE this week, attorneys asked how to handle conflict checks on intake. Most firms search a name and move on. Here is what a real intake check covers, and where the misses come from.
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How to Hire a Nurse Expert Witness for a Pressure Injury (Bedsore) Case
A bedsore case is a nursing case first. Here is what a nurse expert witness reviews, where standard of care ends and causation begins, the documentation red flags that decide these cases, and how to pick the right expert for either side.
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The Missing Piece in Long-Term Care Litigation: What the Medical Record Really Tells Us
In long-term care litigation the challenge is rarely a lack of documentation. It is the volume of it. Kimberly Griffin, RN, WCC explains how a chronological medical-legal review turns thousands of pages into a clinical story attorneys can use.
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A $23.6M Georgia Verdict Turns on Three Drugs Nobody Prescribed
A Gwinnett County jury returned $23.6 million against PruittHealth after a resident twice tested positive for drugs he was never prescribed. The record behind that verdict is worth studying on both sides of the aisle.
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