Nursing Home Accidents
When families select a nursing home or assisted living facility for their loved ones, they rely on staff and administrators to provide professional and responsible care. Unfortunately, cost-cutting measures and other forms of negligence regularly result in nursing home injuries, injuries that never should have happened.
From a Staten Island law office, Bosco, Bisignano & Mascolo, Esqs, LLP attorneys fight for the rights of nursing home patients and vulnerable adults. We provide skilled representation for elders who have been the victims of abuse or neglect and their families.
If you suspect that a loved one's injuries were caused by nursing home negligence or abuse, contact our offices today. We provide free consultations, and you will pay no fees until we recover compensation for your loved one.
Providing Skilled Representation for the Victims of Negligence
Our firm has represented clients in numerous cases involving abuse and neglect at institutions like schools, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Among other clients, we have served:
- The family of a nursing home patient who was severely burned in a fire caused by another resident smoking in a common sitting room, resulting in a wrongful death claim
- Patients who have suffered fractures, brain injuries, or bruises as a result of being dropped or falling out of bed
- Patients who have been mistreated and manhandled by staff
- Patients who have suffered bedsores (also called decubitus ulcers or pressure sores), dehydration and malnutrition as the result of inattentive staff members or understaffed facilities
- Patients who have been seriously injured or killed as a result of drug errors
- Nursing care patients who have been the victims of physical or sexual assault
Protect Your Loved Ones - Act Immediately
If someone you love has suffered injuries as the result of nursing home negligence, you can help. The first, critically important step is to preserve evidence, since nursing homes and other care facilities are notorious for cover-ups.
Take pictures of bruises, bedsores or fractured limbs. Get the names of potential witnesses, along with contact information. Keep any medication, food, restraints or other potential evidence and make detailed notes of your observations, the patient's statements and take statements from witnesses if you can.
Then, speak to a personal injury lawyer at Bosco, Bisignano & Mascolo, Esqs. Our attorneys have extensive experience handling nursing home injury case.
If a loved one has suffered injuries in a nursing home, we can explain your rights and options. If the injuries were caused by the negligent or abusive actions of staff members, we can aggressively pursue legal remedies.
Send us an e-mail or call us toll-free at 888-SI-ACCIDENT (888-742-2243) to arrange a free consultation. We charge no fees until we recover compensation on your behalf.
