Nursing Home Abuse And Your Legal Options
Kentucky Long-Term Care Facility Abuse and Neglect Lawyers
Learning that someone you love has been the victim of nursing home abuse is heartbreaking. You placed your trust in the facility and its staff to provide the best quality of life possible to residents. Now your loved one bears the physical and emotional signs of abuse and neglect – and you need to take action. You need to contact the Kentucky nursing home abuse attorneys at Hughes & Coleman.
Hughes & Coleman has been representing nursing home abuse victims and their families for decades. Our lawyers have seen the horrors suffered by vulnerable adults due to negligence in nursing homes throughout Kentucky. We have the knowledge and resources to evaluate your nursing home abuse or wrongful death claim and provide sound advice about your legal options.
Don’t delay. Call us toll free at 866-280-4609 or complete a free online consultation form today.
We serve Kentucky clients in Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Lexington and Louisville.
Kentucky Nursing Home Abuse And Your Legal Options
Consulting with a lawyer about a suspected case of nursing home abuse is very important.
Nursing home abuse cases are highly complex. There are state and federal laws governing the operation of nursing homes that must be identified and evaluated in a negligence case, and you will need medical experts who can review the victim’s medical records and come up with an opinion about whether abuse occurred and, if so, what the short-term and long-term effects of the injuries may be. Medical experts are also crucial in the case of a wrongful death. It’s not uncommon for lawyers to call upon the coroner to render an opinion about whether nursing home abuse was a likely cause of death for a deceased resident.
Nursing home cases are also complicated because most involve an ongoing pattern of abuse as opposed to one isolated incident. Residents often have numerous caregivers, such as physicians, nurses, certified nursing assistants, therapists and nutritionists. If a life-threatening bedsore is discovered, there is no way to identify one individual who is responsible for letting that condition develop. That’s why lawsuits alleging nursing home abuse typically focus on holding the facility itself responsible for negligence resulting in serious injuries or death.
How We Can Help
Proving your nursing home abuse claim will involve a deep investigation and a thorough review of the victim’s medical records. A skilled Kentucky attorney can help obtain those medical records and work with experts to evaluate where the nursing home’s staff, attending physicians and/or nurses may have breached the standard of care owed to the victim.
A qualified nursing home abuse lawyer can also help explain Kentucky’s nursing home abuse laws and how they interact with federal guidelines on the care of older adults in institutionalized settings. The attorneys at Hughes & Coleman work hard to make sure that each key point of law is explained in simple terms, not using fancy (and confusing!) legal jargon.
Our lawyers have significant advantages when representing victims of elder abuse because our practice extends throughout the state of Kentucky. Having a statewide presence – as opposed to a purely local practice – has given our lawyers the chance to develop a vast storehouse of knowledge about the unique policies and procedures implemented by nursing homes of all types and sizes. When we examine your nursing home abuse claim, we can compare the facts against everything we have learned from past experiences at other facilities. By examining the commonalities and identifying the differences, we can offer an educated opinion about whether you have grounds for a lawsuit.
Contact Our Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Lawyers Today
If you suspect that a loved one is a victim of elder abuse in a Kentucky nursing home, we can help. Call the attorneys at Hughes & Coleman at 866-280-4609 or complete a free online consultation form today.
