Small Firms Team Up to Win $29m in Nursing Home Death in California Superior Court
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Two small firm lawyers joined forces to win a $29 million jury verdict against a nursing home for delaying treatment of a 79-year- old woman who suffered a fractured hip and bed sore that led to her death.
Edward Dudensing, who runs a two-lawyer firm in Sacramento, Calif., and Jay Renneisen, founder of the two-lawyer Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same law school and both specialize in elder abuse cases.See the full content of this document
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Small Firms Team Up to Win $29m in Nursing Home Death in California Superior Court
Trying their first case together, they convinced the jury that the nursing home chain's chronic understaffing and a corporate scheme that siphoned profits to an alter-ego entity merited punitive damages.
"The corporate manipulation of money earned by the facility supported our position that this was an organization that...See the full content of this document
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