Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Springfield, IL
Our Springfield, IL Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Protects Your Vulnerable Loved One
Few personal injury cases are as sad as nursing home abuse and neglect cases. We entrust a memory care facility, assisted living community, or nursing home with the care and treatment of our vulnerable loved ones. When the caregivers and the facility fail in this duty, the victim often suffers worse than a hale and healthy person would. Nursing home injuries can be direct, such as a fall or physical abuse, or develop due to neglect, such as bedsores or contracting a disease like MRSA. Our Springfield, IL nursing home injury lawyer helps you protect your senior and demands full compensation to cover their losses and help you move them to a better caregiving facility.
If your loved one suffered abuse, neglect, or elder fraud while a resident in an area long-term care facility, we can help you. The attorneys at Pioletti Pioletti & Nichols take your case seriously, and we work diligently to help you protect your loved one. Call us today for a free consultation.
Our Dedicated Personal Injury Attorneys Handle Many Types Of Nursing Home Abuse Cases
Nursing home injuries and abuse can happen in several ways:
- The facility is understaffed, and residents don’t receive enough attention or help when they need it. Bedbound patients may not be repositioned regularly to prevent bedsores, or residents who cannot get up or walk without assistance may try to move on their own and suffer a painful, injurious fall.
- Residents suffer neglect due to the staff’s lack of proper training. This can include not realizing that their food could be a choking hazard or failing to change residents with incontinence issues, which can cause injury.
- Some nursing home workers may be deliberately physically abusive residents. You may have seen tragic videos online of staff physically, sexually, and emotionally abusing residents who are too old or ill to defend themselves.
Our firm holds all negligent and malicious parties accountable for the harm they cause. This includes the employees who neglected or abused your senior, the management, and the facility owners. We believe that nursing home abuse is shameful, and anyone who has a role in it should be held fully accountable for the injuries they cause.
Seeking Damages In A Nursing Home Injury Case
Victims in a nursing home abuse claim have the right to full compensation for all material damages they suffered. This includes covering medical care to heal from their injuries and enough to cover the cost of moving your loved one to a home where they will be safe and well-cared for. We also seek compensation for all other out-of-pocket expenses your loved one suffered, including, in cases of fraud or theft, replenishment of the value of the money and items stolen.
In some cases, our firm may seek punitive or exemplary damages to make an example of the facility and staff and serve as a warning to other long-term care facilities tempted to engage in abuse or neglect. We discuss that in your personal case review with our Springfield nursing home injury lawyer.
Don’t wait. If your loved one is being abused in their long-term care facility, call Pioletti Pioletti & Nichols for a free legal consultation.
