Nursing Home and Senior Citizen Residence Defense

      JEFFREY SAMEL & PARTNERS has successfully represented nursing home and senior citizen residence owners or managers faced with a variety of lawsuits or regulatory proceedings. In addition to the "garden variety" personal injury matters such as "slip and fall" cases, most nursing home litigation involves decubitus ulcers (bedsores), falls, abuse (sexual or physical), professional misconduct, failure to provide a proper standard of care and individuals who walk away from the nursing home due to inadequate security. We are experienced in both matters that are generic to any property owner as well as those that are unique to the nursing home or senior care facility.

     Clearly, the value of an individual to his or her family does not decrease because of the need for long-term care. Nor is the value of human life lessened by the lack of income. Nevertheless, we understand that the appropriate responsibilities undertaken by owners or managers with regard to residents must be compared to the areas of responsibility that remain with the residents themselves. When allegations of wrongdoing are made concerning obligations that were never intended to be undertaken by an owner or manager of a senior care facility, we work on behalf of our clients to establish that they lived up to the relevant standards of care and that the unfortunate incident complained of occurred in the absence of any negligence or lack of proper care.

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