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Nursing home must pay $91.5 million in fatal neglect case 

Published: August 8, 2011

Tags: elder abuse, neglect, negligence, nursing home, West Virginia, wrongful death

A Kanawha County, W.Va. jury has awarded an elderly woman’s family $91.5 million in damages from a Charleston nursing home, after finding that nursing home workers indirectly caused the woman’s death.

Jury awards family $9.5 million in nursing home case 

By: Tony Ogden
Published: March 7, 2011

Tags: elder abuse, Georgia, mistreatment, negligence, nursing home

A Walker County, Ga. jury has awarded the family of a Walker County woman more than $9 million after finding a nursing home responsible for her mistreatment.

Grandchildren can’t sue for elder abuse 

By: Pat Murphy
Published: November 2, 2010

Tags: elder abuse

Grandchildren lacked standing to sue other family members for the alleged abuse of an elderly woman who died, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in affirming judgment.

Jury awards $114 million in nursing home lawsuit 

By: Tony Ogden
Published: July 22, 2010

Tags: elder abuse, Florida, nursing home, wrongful death

A Polk County, Fla. jury has handed down a $114 million verdict in a nursing home abuse case that resulted in an elderly woman’s death.

Small firms team up to win $29M in nursing home death 

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: May 26, 2010

Tags: elder abuse, medical malpractice, nursing home

Two small firm lawyers joined forces to win a $29 million jury verdict against a nursing home for delaying treatment of a 79-year-old woman who suffered a fractured hip and bed sore that led to her death.

Edward Dudensing, who runs a two-lawyer firm in Sacramento, Calif., and Jay Renneisen, founder of the two-lawyer Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same law school and both  specialize in elder abuse cases.

Jury returns million-dollar elder abuse verdict against nursing home 

By: Tony Ogden
Published: May 13, 2010

Tags: California, elder abuse, nursing home

A Sacramento County Superior Court jury has found an Auburn nursing home guilty of elder abuse in the death of a Northern California woman in 2005.

Woman awarded $12.5M in elder abuse case 

By: Pat Murphy
Published: March 5, 2010

Tags: elder abuse

A 94-year-old woman was awarded $12.5 million this week after being sexually molested by an illegal immigrant hired as a dietary aide at Oakdale Heights of Santa Clarita, Calif., where she was a resident at the time.

NYC nursing home to pay $19M for patient neglect 

By: Pat Murphy
Published: December 29, 2009

Tags: elder abuse, nursing home litigation, nursing homes

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.

$7.75 million awarded in elder abuse case 

By: Pat Murphy
Published: December 14, 2009

Tags: elder abuse

A Ventura County, Calif., jury Friday awarded $7.75 million to the family of a 71-year-old stroke victim who filed an elder abuse lawsuit against the Fillmore Convalescent Center.