Nursing Home Abuse

Attorney Fighting Nursing Home Abuse

Anyone with a loved one in a nursing home or care facility wants to believe that their family member is receiving excellent care. Our desire to assume the best and hope for the best in others is natural.

Unfortunately, nursing home abuse and neglect doesn’t just occur, it occurs regularly. Worse, it can go undetected because the victims are sometimes unable to understand or communicate abuse and because the perpetrators work hard to hide their wrongful or negligent acts. In the worst cases, victims are unable to share information because they did not survive the abuse.

The Services We Will Perform for You

At the New York personal injury firm of Smiley & Smiley, LLP, our New York City nursing home abuse lawyers can help you determine whether your loved one has been mistreated in a nursing home. The most common occurrences of nursing home abuse and neglect involve:

• Failure to take reasonable precautions to prevent slip-and-fall injuries and other types of injuries
• Failure to provide proper nutrition and hydration
• Failure to assist in personal hygiene
• Over- or undermedication
• Overt physical and sexual abuse
• Use of unwarranted chemical or physical restraints
• Failure to provide medical care
• Failure to prevent bedsores
• Failure to prevent residents from leaving the facility
• Negligence leading to death

Our team has investigated thousands of personal injury claims, including dozens of claims involving nursing home neglect and abuse. Our team is composed solely of experienced litigators. This means that once we have fully investigated your case and determined the liable parties, we are ready to use it to obtain maximum compensation.