Nursing Home Defense
Our Nursing Home Defense attorneys work aggressively to defend facilities in litigation, proactively minimize their risks and anticipate industry trends. We represent skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, adult care facilities, hospices and continuing care retirement communities – both directly and at the request of their insurers. Known as a leading litigation firm in Western New York, our attorneys partner their talent and experience as litigators with their unique knowledge of health care. This combination allows our attorneys to effectively represent nursing homes and other facilities in the courtroom, arbitration and settlement negotiations. We vigorously and successfully defend our clients during pre-trial, trial and post-trial proceedings.
Our litigators draw on the vast experience of the firm’s health care attorneys, who have a long tradition of counseling nursing homes and other health care facilities in survey and enforcement, licensure and certification, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and patient care issues. Together, our attorneys counsel health care clients on innovative risk management strategies involving negotiated risk agreements, best employment practices and sound documentation procedures.
Our attorneys defend claims involving:
- Intentional Misconduct
- Malnutrition
- Medical Malpractice
- Medication Errors
- Negligence
- Slips and Falls
- Substandard Quality of Care
- Pressure Ulcers
- Wrongful Death
- Abuse and Neglect
- Dehydration
- Deprivation of Rights
- Deterioration of Chronic Conditions
- Elopement
- Fractures and Other Injuries
- Improper Use of Restraints
- Inadequate Supervision/Staffing