New York Nursing Home Hit with $19m Verdict for Not Treating Bedsores

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A jury has awarded $19 million to the family of a 76 year-old New York man who died after several months in a nursing home where he developed more than 20 bedsores that went untreated.

The verdict included $15 million in punitive damages against the nursing home, apparently for altering medical records and covering up its lack of treatment.

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New York Nursing Home Hit with $19m Verdict for Not Treating Bedsores

The winning attorney, Dennis Kelly, a partner at Kelly Grossman & Flanagan in Hauppauge, N.Y., relied on a public health statute that's existed for years but has only recently been discovered by nursing home attorneys.

"It's been on the books for 25 years, but no one's ever used it," Kelly to...

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