Our Recent Cases

A demented hospice patient of a Roanoke area nursing home was permitted to gain access to and ingest a chemical floor stripper.  The nursing home knew in the months, weeks, and days before the ingestion that the patient’s judgment and decision-making were impaired and…

A Lynchburg area assisted living facility’s patient began over a weekend to exhibit clinical symptoms that were for him highly unusual: back pain of unknown source; staying in bed; decreased appetite; and urinary incontinence.  During this time, the assisted living facility did not contact…

An aide at a Richmond nursing home permitted a completely immobile bed bound patient to fall from bed.  As a result of the fall, the patient sustained comminuted spiral fractures of her right and left fumurs.   The patient did not receive surgery for…

We recently obtained a very favorable settlement in the case of a nursing home patient who sustained rib fractures in the second of two falls on the same day.  The patient was admitted to the Roanoke area nursing home for…

We recently obtained a very favorable settlement in the case of a 91-year-old female patient who sustained a fall with fractures and head injury at a Roanoke area nursing home.   While at the nursing home, the patient was at all times a high…

We recently obtained a very favorable settlement in the case of an 81-year-old female nursing home patient who was allowed by the facility to fall and sustain a hip fracture.  She was also the victim of medication errors while a patient at the…

We recently obtained a very favorable settlement in the case of a 90-year-old female patient who was permitted to fall at a Danville area nursing home.  On February 9, 2007 at approximately 10:30 pm, an aide at the nursing home was changing the patient when she permitted…

A 91-year-old patient of a nursing home was allowed to develop a pressure ulcer (bed sore, bedsore, pressure sore, decubitus ulcer) on her sacrum (low back).  The pressure ulcer deteriorated and she died three and one-half months later.  On admission…

A 100-year-old nursing home patient was dropped in her bathroom by a CNA, who was reportedly assisting her to toilet.  The nursing home’s care plan required two care providers to be present with the patient during transfers and toileting.  Only one care provider…

An elderly male patient was admitted to a local hospital in severe respiratory distress and was intubated.  When his condition began to stabilize several days later, he was transferred from the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) to an orthopedic floor.  The…