Nursing Home Neglect

Nursing Home Neglect Injures and Kills The Most Vulnerable

HoeyLegal FIGHTS FOR THE DEFENSELESS AGAINST THE NURSING HOME INDUSTRY

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The most vulnerable and defenseless patients are those confined to nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Instead of receiving the best possible care in the last days of their lives, they are mistreated, neglected, abused and ignored. If you believe that a family member has suffered from mistreatment in a nursing home and/or long-term care facility, that relative deserves vigilant representation. What we discover most often is that the nursing home typically chooses profit over patient care and under-staffs their facility to the great detriment of the most vulnerable patients they are entrusted to treat.

The typical result is that these patients are ignored, mistreated and abused. Our investigative team includes rehabilitative medicine physicians, emergency room physicians, nursing home experts and investigators who know and understand the state and federal regulations regarding staffing, quality of care and nursing home treatment plans. Our exhaustive investigations typically lead to significant awards for the neglected patient and fines and penalties for the profit driven nursing home. Please feel free to contact the nursing home attorneys at HoeyLegal for your free and comprehensive consultation. Expect the best.

COMMON SIGNS OF NURSING HOME ABUSE

At HoeyLegal, our nursing home trial attorneys are more than familiar with the unfortunate warning signs that an elderly resident has been abused. Warning signs may include any of the following:
If your loved one demonstrates any of the above-noted signs of physical and emotional abuse, contact the nursing home attorneys at HoeyLegal at once. Your free consultation will include a thorough examination of your loved one’s injuries and a discussion as to how to hold the institution accountable for their loss.

CAUSES OF NURSING HOME INJURIES AND DEATH

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Unfortunately, many elderly patients suffer injuries, catastrophic injuries and death as a result of the understaffing of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Profit driven institutions oftentimes under staff their facilities purposefully in an effort to reduce salaries, benefit payments and in turn, enrich themselves at the expense of the safety and well-being of your loved one. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has established regulations which govern the staffing of nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

At HoeyLegal, we compel the nursing home to produce their staffing documents, employee payment histories, schedules and related documents tonursing abuse lawyer determine whether or not your loved one’s injuries were caused by understaffing and negligent supervision. A sophisticated nursing home prosecution must include an examination of the nursing home staffing data as it is commonplace to have an institution understaffed at the time of a loved one’s injuries.

In addition to understaffing the facility, senior abuse and nursing home injuries may be the result of poorly trained, poorly supervised and indifferent nursing home staff. Regrettably, seniors may lack the ability to properly communicate the mechanism of injury to a family member or supervisor. Individuals who abuse senior residents take solace in the fact that the resident will be unable to report the abuse due to age and infirmity. The trial attorneys at HoeyLegal have uncovered instances of wanton and reckless abuse of senior residents, have prosecuted those claims, and received substantial recovery for elderly victims.

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WHY CHOOSE THE HoeyLegal NURSING HOME TRIAL ATTORNEYS?

For more than 20 years, the nursing home trial attorneys at HoeyLegal have obtained significant compensation and awards for individuals who sustained injury as a result of the negligent care/abusive care they received at a nursing home or long-term care facility. Our team aggressively litigates nursing home negligence claims and is not deterred by the aggressive defense brought on behalf of the institution and employees. Our analysis of your claim begins with a free consultation and comprehensive review of your medical records, injuries and the conduct leading up to the injuries sustained by your loved one. HoeyLegal’s extensive investigation will likewise include a review of each and every complaint made against the institution by former residents. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintains prior complaints which are accessible to the general public, and our investigators in particular. All nursing home cases at HoeyLegal include a thorough review of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania nursing home databases to determine whether or not a pattern of abusive conduct exists at your loved one’s facility.

If you or a loved one has been injured or suffered an untimely and unexplained death at a nursing home or long-term care facility, contact the attorneys at HoeyLegal at once. Let our on-staff physician, experienced trial attorneys and experts conduct a comprehensive evaluation of your claim. At HoeyLegal, expect the best!

Distracted Driving

Pennsylvania defines distracted driving as “an activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving.” Drivers have to focus on driving, so they can react to the information on the road, such as road conditions, hazards and other drivers. Distracted drivers do not react appropriately and thus put others at risk for severe injury or death. Examples of distractions, besides using cell phones and texting, include drinking, eating, adjusting the radio, adjusting climate controls, adjusting seats, combing hair, putting on make-up, daydreaming, reaching for dropped items, engaging in heavy conversations, and focusing on events outside of the car.

Driving Under the Influence

Driving under the influence typically refers to alcohol use, but drug use can also impair drivers and cause severe car accidents.  In either situation, enjoying cocktails at happy hour, celebrating with drugs or alcohol, drinking too much wine for dinner and unwinding after a long week at work results in too many motorists driving under the influence.  Controlled substances impact each person differently, making it common for someone to misjudge his or her level of impairment.  These poor judgments can lead to severe and sometimes fatal car accidents.

Driver Fatigue

Driving without enough sleep is commonplace for many in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and across the nation. Truck drivers, shift workers, and those with sleep disorders are most vulnerable to causing an accident because they are drowsy or fatigued. Not having enough rest slows down reaction time and impairs the senses. In fact, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) claims that eighteen (18) hours without sleep impairs a driver to the same extent as someone who has a 0.08 blood or breath alcohol concentration after consuming alcohol.

Speeding

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that one-third of all car accidents involve speeding. Drivers who rush, run late, or simply lack patience may choose to speed when they get behind the wheel. Speeding makes it more likely that a driver will lose control of his or her vehicle and makes it more difficult to react to road hazards and other vehicles. Speeding also increases the impact of a car accident and makes it far less likely that a negligent driver may maintain control of his vehicle sufficient to prevent a collision. High speed car accidents make it far more likely that those involved will suffer severe injuries or death.

OBTAIN NECESSARY COURT ORDERS TO PRESERVE EVIDENCE

At HoeyLegal, we know from our litigation experience that tractor-trailer drivers often operate at least one cellular phone which is in use at, during, or immediately prior to a tractor-trailer accident. Additionally, most tractor-trailers are equipped with data recorders which capture, in real-time, important vehicle operation events including speed, hard braking and other evasive maneuvers taken by the operator and the tractor-trailer.  It is imperative that this evidence be obtained before it is destroyed.  At HoeyLegal, our trial attorneys will obtain any necessary court order to preserve this evidence for trial.

IDENTIFY ALL AT-FAULT DEFENDANTS

Oftentimes, there are several defendants responsible for the tractor-trailer accident. In most cases, at least two defendants are responsible for the ownership and operation of the tractor-trailer.  There may be additional defendants responsible for the hiring and retention of the tractor-trailer driver.  At HoeyLegal, our investigators will promptly identify the responsible defendants and immediately request the preservation of all evidence related to the hiring and retention of the driver, inspection of the vehicles and the supervision and drug/alcohol testing of the vehicle operator.

LOCATE, EXAMINE AND INSPECT THE TRACTOR-TRAILER

Our accident investigators include mechanics who will immediately respond to the accident site and the location where the truck has been impounded in order to photograph the truck and conduct necessary mechanical inspections of the vehicle. In the event that a court order is necessary to examine and inspect the trucks, HoeyLegal Attorneys will promptly file the necessary motions to enable the HoeyLegal mechanics and inspectors to conduct a prompt evaluation of the mechanical function of the at-fault tractor-trailer

ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION

Our expert accident investigators include former Pennsylvania State Police accident investigators and nationally recognized engineers who will carefully photograph the accident scene and conduct all necessary measurements of skid marks, yaw marks, displacement of debris and thoroughly examine the accident site to preserve all evidence for the time of trial.

INTERVIEW ALL WITNESS

Our investigators will promptly interview and record all witnesses that observed the accident and collect all biographical information from the witnesses so they will available to testify on your behalf at trial.

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