Posts Tagged ‘Nursing Home Litigation’
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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Why a Google Search and an Ethics Opinion Will Not Clear an Expert Witness Conflict
Experts are often told to handle conflict checks by reading ethics guidance and searching online. That tells you what a conflict is. It cannot tell you whether you have one. Here is what does.
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Expert Witness Conflict Checks: How to Clear a Case Before You Open the Records
Courts disqualify experts who switch sides after receiving confidential information. What the two-part test asks, where conflicts hide in medical cases, and a conflict check every expert can run before opening the records.
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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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