Louisiana Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing Home Abuse News in the State of
Louisiana:
September 14, 2006
"Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Over Katrina Nursing Home Deaths"
A class-action wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of 22 nursing home residents who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by the daughter of one of the victims.
Cheryl Martin lost her mother, Ida Antoine, in the days following Katrina's landfall in New Orleans. Antoine was a resident of the Lafon Nursing Home of the Holy Family, where 130 elderly residents were living at the time of the storm on August 29, 2005.
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October 3, 2005
"La. nursing home charged in 34 deaths"
According to Louisiana's attorney general Charles Foti, authorities have discovered another body at a New Orleans area nursing home that failed to evacuate its residents when Hurricane Katrina approached. The latest discovery has increased the total number of nursing home residents who died at the facility to 35.
Currently, efforts are underway to identify the body. The owners of the nursing home, Mable and Salvador Mangano Sr., have been charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide. There are 13 nursing homes currently under criminal investigation for the failure to evacuate their patients before the devastating storm hit land August 29.
The attorney general said because nursing homes failed to evacuate facilities, more than 100 senior citizens in Louisiana might have died. According to state law, nursing homes and hospitals are required to evacuate.
The Mangano's attorney blamed the Army Corps of Engineers and its levees for the negligence that flooded the nursing home.
June
4, 2003
"Louisiana lawyers pleased with
nursing home abuse decision"
Louisiana nursing home abuse lawyers happily accepted the decision
made by a House committee that will not categorize all nursing home
suits under the medical malpractice caps. By doing so, critics believed
nursing home abuse and neglected residents would not have their
rights protected. The Louisiana nursing home abuse lawyers and industry
lobbyists cited particularly gruesome instances of Louisiana nursing
home abuse to illustrate how categorizing all suits under the medical
malpractice cap would not bring justice to many victims. Contact
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