subject: Injuries Covered By Personal Injury Lawsuits [print this page] There is a major problem occurring with increasing frequency in nursing homes. More and more elders are being abused by people charged with their care. This is not only damaging and painful to the resident, but is also of course very upsetting to their family. When nursing home abuse occurs, it can be covered by a personal injury lawsuit.
A personal injury lawsuit covers a number of different types of injuries relevant to nursing home abuse. One important inclusion is injury caused via neglect or negligence on the part of the residence.
False imprisonment is also actionable. When an attendant falsely imprisons a resident, it can cause injury. Other regular hazards found in a nursing home may also be actionable.
Sometimes there are obvious physical injuries and signs of abuse. Other times, the injury is real but less immediately obvious, such as in the case of isolation, an inability to get needed prescriptions, or mental anguish. All of these are real injuries, and are covered in personal injury lawsuits.
Indeed, these injuries and others can be used to bring suit against a nursing home. So long as there is some sort of proof that abuse or neglect has occurred, you have a case.
Negligence should be considered more closely. It includes such problems as not having a regular maintenance process to ensure the conditions in the home are appropriate and safe, or not monitoring employees closely enough to ensure safety of residence. You can argue negligence any time that harm results from a nursing home not doing something that it should have done.
It is a sad fact that nursing home abuse is becoming more common. Unfortunately, many elderly people suffer in the very residences where they are placed in order to keep them safe. It is wrong, and unnecessary.
No nursing home or residence should ever mistreat or neglect those in its care. For this reason, when abuse or neglect occurs, it should be dealt with legally.
by: James Matthews.
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