Nursing Home Neglect

In this case, our client was a service-disabled veteran who was a quadriplegic. His wife, who had been with him since he was first paralyzed decades earlier and became his caregiver, wanted to go on a girls’ trip for the first time ever, so she interviewed home health aides and companies to ensure she got someone who could perform the client’s specialized care in her absence. The client’s wife showed a home health aide exactly how to transfer him into and out of bed, but when the aide tried to transfer the client herself, she caught his foot on the bed as she rotated and broke his leg. The client was forced to wear an immobilizing boot to heal the facture, but it interfered with his mobility and repositioning in bed and led to the development of a bedsore that progressed to Stage IV and required substantial treatment to heal. Ultimately, after lengthy litigation and two mediations, the home health company’s insurance company settled the client’s injury claim as well as his wife’s loss of consortium claim for significant confidential amounts.