I have made significant recoveries for individuals and their families. Oftentimes the insurance company or the corporation demands that the settlement remain confidential. So as to not jeopardize any confidentiality clause the amount of the settlement and the name of the nursing home, corporation or insurance company has been omitted. Some of the recoveries that I have helped individuals and families in recent years are:
• A nursing home resident who died while choking on a sandwich and the staff was unable to properly perform the Heimlich maneuver
• A woman whose finger had to be amputed after it became infected following a visit to a nail salon
• A Holocaust survivor who was living in an independent living facility where she died after breaking her hip from a fall on an icy sidewalk at the facility
• A nursing home resident whose arm was broken while being transferred from her bed to a wheelchair
• A nursing home resident who developed decubitus ulcers and urinary tract infection
• A nursing home resident who fractured a hip after the staff failed to heed the call light
• A nursing home resident who developed a decubitus ulcer and lost 30 pounds in one month
• Widow whose work comp death benefits were wrongfully cut off by the insurance company
• Disabled woman who broke her shoulder when public assistance van driver did not properly strap her in her wheelchair
• Woman who fell in hospital after going to the bathroom without assistance
• Truck driver who died from stroke caused by driving excessive hours
• Passenger in vehicle on gravel road traveling through an unmarked intersection where the vehicle was T-boned by a schoolteacher; both drivers, the county road district and the owner of the hay bales which obstructed view of the approaching vehicles were sued
• Homeless man died from burns suffered in a shed which caught fire from sparking overhead electrical wires
• Alcoholic who was incarcerated in county jail went into DTs and was not provided with prompt medical attention and died a day later
• A nursing home resident who drank water excessively (polydypsia); the nursing home staff did not sufficiently monitor the resident's fluid intake and she died from an abnormally low potassium concentration in the blood
