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To Sue or Not To Sue: The Decisional Process Of A Lawyer
The most important decision made on a recurrent basis by the personal injury practitioner is the decision to accept a case and invest time, experience and money towards its resolution. The lawyer prone to accept a number of speculative or marginal cases is destined to...
Strategies for Decreasing Legal Hazards in Long-Term Care
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER School of Nursing/Continuing Nursing Education Strategies for Decreasing Legal Hazards in Long-Term Care Presentation on Legal Accountability for Health Care Professionals and Related Documentation Issues By David T. Marks...
PLEADING AND DISCOVERY STRATEGIES IN THE NURSING HOME MALPRACTICE CASE1
1.01 -- Introduction The most important decision made on a recurrent basis by the personal injury practitioner is the decision to accept a case and invest time, experience and money towards its resolution. The lawyer prone to accept a number of speculative or...
Implications of Increased Autonomy
Accelerated Accountability Why is this trend particularly relevant to the gerontological nurse? Nowhere are the factors that precipitated the emergence of legal responsibility and independent liability for the professional nurse more pronounced than in the discipline...
Rape Leads to Reform
Dorothy Cooper was a child of the Great Depression, one of eight children who went to work in the West Texas cotton fields after their father lost his railroad job. Her schooling was sporadic, her life difficult. But Ms. Cooper was a survivor. "She viewed her life as...
Resident with violent history beat roommate’s face to a pulp
FACTS & ALLEGATIONS On Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997, plaintiff’s decedent Tranquilino Mendoza, then an 81-year-old dementia sufferer who resided in the general population of Comanche Trail Nursing Center in Big Spring was attacked by his roommate, Geronimo Vela,...
$160 MILLION: Nursing home resident with violent history attacks roommate
LawyersUSA lawyersusaonline.com (January 16, 2007) Natalie White - Contributing writer Verdict: $160 million total $150 million in punitive damages State: Texas Type of case: Personal injury Trial: 2 weeks Deliberations: 2 1⁄2 days Status: Appellate briefs have been...
Strategies for Decreasing Legal Hazards in Long-Term Care
Introduction: Objective: To educate those in the nursing profession and the allied health fields about conduct (relating to treatment and care of the geriatric patient) which constitutes a "red flag" to the legal profession; places health care professionals at risk;...
Worker burned in flash fire caused by gasoline
Facts & Allegations On Jan. 11, 2008, while refueling a logging loader in Rusk, plaintiff Alvaro Chavez, 52, a truck driver, used his cigarette lighter to check the fuel gauge and was engulfed in a flash fire. His employer’s fuel contractor was Gardner Oil Inc....
Nursing home resident choked on meal, family alleged
Facts & Allegations On Feb. 24, 2008, plaintiffs’ decedent Clay Nelson, a resident of a nursing home in south-central Tennessee, was found unresponsive during dinner at the nursing home facility. Staff initiated CPR and called 911. When paramedics arrived at the...