"Nursing Home Request a Lid Be Put on Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit Awards"
February 18 , 2003
Nursing home facilities claim that with the additional insurance premiums they are unable to pay for the hefty jury awarded sum due to instances of nursing home abuse. The nursing homes want a lid on jury awards given to the injured and neglected patients. This has angered elderly advocate groups that argue the nursing home abuse civil suits are the only protection that many states offer victims of nursing home abuse. While laws put into place in certain states are intended to better protect victims of nursing home abuse, nursing homes think that they make them lawsuit targets.
Advocates argue the other side noting estimates have shown according to a U.S. General Accounting Office report, over 30% of nursing home have been cited for such serious violations that residents were harmed or were put in immediate jeopardy. Advocates think that nursing homes are using the increase in insurance rates as a means to destroy the elder-abuse protection act. Pursuing a nursing home abuse lawsuit is already an expensive and difficult legal battle to fight according to advocates and judges reduce most big jury judgments.
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