ESTATE OF EDWARDS VS N & R OF PLATTE CITY D/B/A/ HILLVIEW NURSING & REHAB AND HEALTH SYSTEMS

Mar 01, 2006

OUTCOME: $791,000 Arbitration Award

Anna Edwards entered Hillview Nursing & Rehab after having fallen several times at home. Doctors had recommended that she recover at a nursing home. The nursing home staff was aware of her previous fal ... ls, evaluated her and recommend that a lap buddy be used whenever she was in a wheelchair. Her doctor agreed. Some time later a quality assurance nurse from Health Systems decided Mrs. Edwards did not need the lap buddy. Over the next 18 days Mrs. Edwards fell out of her wheelchair three times. After the last fall she was rushed to the hospital. She died five days after the last fall. The nursing home was cited for deficiencies by the state Department of Health. Anna Edwards' family sued the nursing home for the wrongful death of Mrs. Edwards. In one of the first awards against a nursing home under the Missouri Omnibus Nursing Home Act, an arbitrator ordered a Platte City. Mo., nursing home to pay $79l,876 to the family of an 87-year-old woman who fell out of her wheelchair three times before dying from related injuries. The award is also believed to be the first arbitrated resolution in a wrongful death claim against a nursing home, said plaintiff attorney Jill Kanatzar.

Basta Vs. KCP&L

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OUTCOME: $1 million verdict

Wrongful Death of an adult son electrocuted while replacing residential roof.

WOMAN DROWNED AT MISSOURI NURSING HOME

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OUTCOME: Large 7 Figure Settlement

Dollar, Burns, Becker and Hershewe partner, Jill Kanatzar, recently recovered a large seven figure settlement for the family of a woman who died as a result of drowning at a Missouri nursing home. The ... woman was a resident of the nursing home for less than one year. She was left alone in a bathtub for an extended period by a Certified Nurses Aid who was employed through a staffing agency. The allegations against the facility included a failure to train and supervise the visiting aid and notify her of a change in the resident’s condition 5 days prior to the drowning. The settlement was with the facility and staffing agency.

Four-year-old victim sexually abused by another minor

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OUTCOME: $1.50 Million Settlement