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NYC nursing home to pay $19M for patient neglect (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: December 29, 2009

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A Brooklyn, N.Y., nursing home will have to fork over nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left with more than 20 bedsores. The massive award, handed down by a Brooklyn jury earlier this month, is the first in the state against a nursing home that includes punitive damages, lawyers said.
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