In an extremely conservative jurisdiction, Lloyd & Lloyd recently obtained a $300,000 judgment against a nursing home for a fall injury that caused facial injuries and a broken nose. This judgment includes a $100,000 award for punitive damages against the nursing...
Frequently, nursing home administration will complain that they simply do not have the resources to provide the level of care that their residents need. Basically, they will argue that it’s unreasonable to expect that a nursing home could, for example, have enough...
Like it has done for the past decade, the Oklahoma Legislature recently killed a bill that would have required all nursing homes to have liability insurance. Senate Bill 1355 would have forced nursing home owners to purchase $250,000 of liability insurance that would...
In November 2013, Lloyd & Lloyd obtained a $769,000 judgment against a Bartlesville nursing home for neglect that caused a Stage IV bed sore. This judgment was one of the largest judgments in Washington County for medical negligence in recent memory. Lloyd &...