Herbert Thornbury practices from 701 Cherokee Boulevard Suite 200, Chattanooga, TN 37405-3339, defending nursing home residents’ rights to privacy, medical self-determination, communication, organization, and financial control for over 30 years throughout Hamilton County, East Ridge, and Soddy-Daisy. The attorney emphasizes residents aren’t at facilities’ mercy, maintaining rights to confidential correspondence, choosing doctors, participating in treatment decisions, reporting grievances, organizing with other residents, and arranging family visits without interference. Violations occur both unintentionally with good intentions and deliberately for profits or convenience, creating dangers of serious abuse or neglect. Thornbury protects residents from rifling through belongings, examining private correspondence, restricting medical record confidentiality, or financial exploitation – the most common nursing home abuse type. Federal and state laws protect residents’ rights regardless of facility agreements, including privacy in financial dealings and owing only agreed-upon amounts. The firm offers 24/7 availability at 423-667-0184 for free consultations when rights violations put vulnerable elderly at risk.
Nursing Home Negligence Attorneys
Attorney Timothy Rhatigan operates from 77 W. Wacker Drive Suite 4500, Chicago, IL 60601, handling Naperville nursing home abuse cases involving Manor Care, Generations, Lexington, Alden, Aperion, Bria, Grove, and Heritage facilities at 312-578-8502. The firm establishes liability through negligent personal supervision, negligent hiring and retention, premises maintenance failures, and equipment selection negligence under Illinois Nursing Home Care Act ILCS 45 defining abuse and neglect standards. Rhatigan Law addresses physical abuse causing pain and impairment, emotional abuse through intimidation and harassment, financial exploitation via credit card theft and check forgery, and sexual abuse reported in over 1,000 U.S. facilities between 2013-2016. The attorneys prove duty of care breaches causing resident injuries, pursuing damages determined by injury severity and successful claim documentation. They offer free case reviews investigating nurses, staff members, criminals, and other residents as potential abusers across all Naperville area nursing homes. The firm emphasizes immediate consultation importance for preserving evidence and maximizing compensation through experienced legal representation.
Nicolas Lampariello leads Lampariello Law in Weston, Florida, providing nursing home abuse representation with compassion and resolve. The firm addresses bedsores, malnutrition, dehydration, medication errors, physical abuse, sexual assault, emotional neglect, and financial exploitation throughout Weston’s facilities. They investigate hazardous living conditions, mobility losses from extended wheelchair confinement progressing to stage 4 bedsores, poor hygiene, soiled linens, unexplained injuries, and psychological trauma including depression and fear. The practice documents evidence through medical records, photographs, and surveillance while reporting to nursing home administrators, state health departments, and law enforcement. They pursue economic damages for medical expenses and relocation costs, non-economic damages for pain and suffering, and punitive damages in egregious cases. Understanding the emotional burden and trust violations, the attorneys work with medical experts to prove negligence and secure maximum compensation. Operating throughout Florida, Lampariello Law offers free consultations at 855-495-3733, ensuring seniors receive respect, proper care, and justice when facilities breach their duty of care.
Ross Feller Casey leads Pennsylvania nursing home injury litigation from One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St. 34th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, with over $3 billion in personal injury recoveries and $1 billion in four years for nursing home cases at 215-515-4401. The firm’s doctor-lawyers handle pressure ulcers on heels, feet, hips, buttocks, and tailbone, elder abuse including sexual assault and battery, wound infections causing sepsis and osteomyelitis, death from dehydration, and brain injuries from choking or aspiration. They address elopement from unsecured facilities, painful contractures, falls causing fractures and head trauma, bed rail entrapment deaths, catheter injuries to penis and bladder, plus catastrophic understaffing injuries. Ross Feller Casey pursues cases where hundreds of thousands suffer neglect annually through negligent hiring, understaffing, insufficient training, medication errors, and statutory violations. Harvard Law School praised them as “a firm that keeps setting new records,” while The Philadelphia Inquirer called them “among the nation’s top plaintiffs firms” with 75+ verdicts exceeding $10 million, offering free consultations without charges until recovery.
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Sean T. Keith leads Keith Law Group from 5050 W Northgate Road, Suite 108, Rogers, AR 72758, serving Greenwood nursing home abuse victims with 30+ years experience and over $100 million total recoveries. Recognized as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer, Keith addresses physical abuse, neglect, emotional trauma, sexual assault, financial exploitation, and abandonment affecting Arkansas’s 36,000 nursing facility residents. The 2020 ombudsman reported 15,000 abuse complaints, with NCVC categorizing 29% physical abuse, 22% resident-on-resident abuse, 21% psychological abuse, 14% gross neglect, 7% sexual abuse, and 7% financial exploitation. The firm identifies malnutrition, dehydration, bedsores, infections, mysterious bruises, mood swings, unsanitary environments, and medication changes as abuse indicators. Resources include Arkansas Adult Protective Services, long-term care ombudsman, and Medicare’s Care Compare tool. Historic settlements include $1.5 million for burns, $1.2 million for assault, and $346,000 for life-threatening bedsores. Operating on contingency fees, Keith Law Group offers free consultations at 479-326-7734, fighting corporate facilities with extensive resources.
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Jonathan R. Brockman, P.C. operates from 401 S. Main Street, Unit A5, Alpharetta, GA 30009, with additional offices in Atlanta, Carrollton, Cumming, and Fayetteville, providing nursing home abuse representation throughout Southern Georgia on contingency basis. Attorneys Jonathan R. Brockman, Cynthia Matthews, Daley Reynolds, and Pitts handle cases involving bedsores, ulcers, poor hygiene, unexplained injuries, falls, malnutrition, dehydration, broken bones, sprains, psychological abuse, improper restraints, medication mismanagement, wandering, and wrongful death. Physical abuse includes hitting or improper restraints, emotional abuse involves verbal assaults and isolation, sexual abuse includes non-consensual contact, financial abuse involves exploiting money or assets, and neglect includes failure providing food, water, shelter, or medical attention. Georgia’s two-year statute of limitations applies from abuse date, with discovery rule potentially extending deadlines. The firm offers free consultations at 770-205-8887, maintains open communication throughout cases, and works contingency meaning no payment unless they secure insurance settlements or favorable jury verdicts.
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Edwards & Patterson Law maintains offices at 321 S. 3rd Street, McAlester, OK 74501, (918-302-3700), and 7136 South Yale Ave, Suite 300, Tulsa, OK 74136, providing over 50 years of combined experience representing nursing home abuse victims across Oklahoma and Arkansas. The firm handles physical abuse including hitting, pushing, restraining, and inappropriate restraint use; emotional abuse through verbal threats, insults, isolation, and intimidation; sexual abuse cases; neglect involving inadequate nutrition, hygiene, medical care, or supervision; financial exploitation through unauthorized fund use, property theft, or fraud; and medical neglect cases. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, one in three nursing homes nationwide were cited for federal care standard violations, with 10% causing serious resident harm. The firm notes that 44% of residents report abuse and 95% report witnessing neglect, while over 50% of staff admitted to abusing at least one patient. They work on contingency basis, offering free consultations to families throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas, fighting to secure maximum compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and emotional distress.
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Darrell Castle leads Darrell Castle & Associates PLLC at 5050 Poplar Ave Suite 1600, Memphis, TN 38157, handling nursing home abuse cases including physical, emotional, abandonment, sexual abuse, and financial exploitation at (901) 327-2100. The Memphis firm addresses bedsores, unexplained bruises, scarring, fractures, restraint signs, drug overdose, arguments with caregivers, personality changes, verbal abuse, gaslighting, isolation, theft, fraud, and signature forging throughout Shelby County, West Memphis, East Arkansas, Byhalia, North Mississippi, Jackson, and West Tennessee. Operating as a 4th generation Nashvillian’s practice, Castle pursues cases involving caregivers showing favoritism to manipulate residents into giving money, transferring funds, stealing cash, and counterfeiting signatures on legal documents. The attorneys investigate facilities where patients cannot comprehend abuse or remember incidents, filing claims for purposely harmful or gravely negligent acts constituting legal abuse. They provide free consultations addressing inadequate care from understaffed facilities, helping families seek financial damages when relatives don’t receive adequate care from staff members.
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The Mottley Law Firm PLC operates from 8001 Franklin Farms Dr Rm 125, Richmond, VA 23229, protecting Virginia nursing home residents from physical abuse, emotional trauma, sexual assault, healthcare neglect, and financial exploitation at 804-409-0876. Attorneys Kevin W. Mottley, Benjamin P. Kyber, Juliet Markowitz, and Danielle Angell investigate facilities throughout Richmond, Bon Air, Glen Allen, Highland Springs, Laurel, Mechanicsville, Short Pump, and Tuckahoe for violations causing bruises, cuts, bedsores, malnutrition, and unsanitary conditions. The firm pursues medical expenses, pain and suffering compensation, emotional trauma damages, relocation costs, and punitive damages for egregious misconduct cases. They handle wrongful death claims seeking funeral expenses, loss of companionship, and pre-death suffering compensation when neglect proves fatal. Mottley Law conducts thorough investigations, gathers evidence, secures expert testimony, manages facility communications, negotiates settlements, and takes cases to trial. They ensure proper care during legal proceedings while fighting tirelessly to protect elderly residents’ rights across Virginia communities.
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Jason Stone Injury Lawyers serves Brockton from multiple Massachusetts locations including 225 Friend St #301 Boston MA 02108, (800) 577-5188, handling nursing home abuse cases involving Guardian Center, Champion Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, and St. Joseph Manor Health Care facilities where residents suffer physical, emotional, financial, and sexual abuse. The firm pursues compensation for medical bills including emergency treatment, transport, assessments, procedures, medications, physical therapy, plus lost wages when families miss work to report abuse and care for victims. They calculate pain, suffering, and emotional distress damages while investigating bedsores, malnutrition, dehydration, unexplained injuries, behavioral changes, and signs of mistreatment. Operating 24/7 under their Stone Cold Guarantee with offices in Fall River, Natick, Norwood, Peabody, and Plymouth, they gather evidence through employee interviews, surveillance footage requests, facility visits, medical record reviews, and expert collaboration. The attorneys have secured over $19 million in compensation using contingency pricing, maintaining Massachusetts’s three-year statute of limitations for filing claims.
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