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Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Seeking Justice for Victims of Elder Abuse and Nursing Home Malpractice

Senior citizens and disabled persons deserve compassionate and competent care when they are no longer able to care for themselves. Unfortunately, too many nursing home and elder care facilities are more interested in profits than their residents' safety and well-being.

Was your parent, grandparent or other family member injured in a nursing home or assisting living facility? By exposing nursing home abuse or neglect, you may help prevent other residents from suffering the same treatment. Bringing a claim for injuries or death caused by mistreatment, abuse, or neglect can also help you recover compensation to pay for the medical expenses and other losses suffered by your loved one.

Contact us online or call us toll free at 1.800.242.2962 to discuss how we can help you recover for nursing home abuse or neglect.

At Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, our attorneys have significant experience representing nursing home residents and their families. We know how to hold nursing homes responsible for personal injuries and wrongful death caused by inadequate care, medication errors, understaffing, failing to monitor residents, and other negligence and nursing home abuse.

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities have a duty to provide proper care and service to patients. Nursing homes are not only responsible for the medical care that they provide to their patients, but also for the day-to-day supervision that their patients require. Injuries often caused by nursing home abuse include:

  • Infections and Bed Sores - caused by failure to monitor a patient's skin, failure to reposition or move a resident who is in a wheelchair or bedridden, failure to treat bed sores which become infected, and unsanitary condition and inadequate infection control measures
  • Broken Bones - and other injuries caused by failure to assess a resident's risk for falling and failure to take fall prevention measures
  • Malnutrition and Dehydration - caused by failure to monitor a patient's food and water intake, failure to notify a physician when a resident is not eating or drinking
  • Unexplained Bruising - or other injuries caused by physical abuse, assault, or sexual abuse by staff or other residents
  • Restraints and Overuse of Drugs - injuries caused by improper use of physical restraints, medication overdose, and other medication errors

If you suspect that someone you love was injured because of nursing home abuse or neglect, please contact our Georgia law firm today. Our lawyers will fully investigate the medical care and supervision provided to your family member. In cases of nursing home malpractice, we fight to recover full compensation and take measures to protect other residents from abuse and neglect.
Success Stories

$17,716,401 Verdict / Auto Product Liability / Ford Explorer Rear Restraint System / Lap Only Seat Belt

12/18/2009 Wheeler v. Ford Motor Company, et al., State Court, Clayton County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs Lynn and Douglas Wheeler won their design defect and failure to warn claims against Ford Motor Company relating to the 2002 Ford Explorer. On Christmas morning 2005, 58 year old Lynn Wheeler was on her way to church with her family. Lynn Wheeler was seated in the rear center seat of her son’s 2002 Ford Explorer, wearing the lap-only seat belt Ford installed for that seating position. Two of Lynn Wheeler’s grandchildren were in child seats on either side of her. As they entered a curve on Noah’s Ark Road, a 2-door Eagle Talon coupe driven by John C. Stanley crossed the centerline and struck the Explorer head-on.

$5,470,000 Verdict/Wrongful Death

10/23/09 Pitts v. A&G Trucking. Inc., et al., State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs, four minor children, recovered for the death of their father, who was killed by a dump truck driver while the decedent was working as a "spotter" or "flag man" on the runway expansion at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. According to eye-witnesses, the driver of the dump truck was talking on her cell phone or CB radio and was given a stop signal by the deceased.

$45,000,000 Settlement | Credit Insurance/Consumer Rights Class Action

10/31/07 Toole v. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company, Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia

Plaintiff Toole represented a class of people who prepaid J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company premiums for credit life and disability insurance policies when they purchased vehicles. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company contractually promised to refund any unearned premium if class members paid off the insured loans before the five-year term had expired, but failed to do so when they paid off the insured loans early.

$105,500,000 Verdict | Defective Automobile

11/23/04 Flax v. Daimler Chrysler Corporation and Louis A. Stockell, Jr., Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee

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With offices in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia, the attorneys at Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLP represent the seriously injured throughout Georgia, including the cities of Atlanta, Columbus, Marietta, Smyrna, Roswell, Gainesville, Peachtree City, Forest Park, Riverdale, Lagrange, Macon, and Savannah. Our lawyers have handled accident and defective product claims nationwide, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.