Illinois Nursing Home Negligence Alleged in Resident’s Fatal Trip and Fall
Illinois trip and fall accidents can cause serious physical injuries—especially if the person who falls is an elderly senior already suffering from health issues or who has brittle bones or a weakened immune system. Recently, a relative of Anastasia J. Hubert filed an Illinois nursing home negligence complaint blaming Cambridge House of O'Fallon and BMA Management for her wrongful death.
David Hubert claims that Anastasia died from pneumonia because her health failed after she fractured her spine when she tripped and fell over a telephone cord near a nurse’s desk. David Contends that the defendants were negligent for allowing there to be a cord in a walkway, not securing it with tape, and placing a phone in an area that allowed the cord to become a trip hazard. He is seeking over $200,000 in damages.
Illinois Nursing Home Negligence
While Chicago nursing home abuse and neglect are among the most serious types of acts of nursing home negligence, allowing a premise hazard to exist at a nursing can also cause injury victims to cry negligence on the assisted living facility’s part. It is a nursing home’s responsibility to make sure that there are no hazards on a property that could cause patients to get sick, hurt, or die.
When a trip and fall is cited as a cause of Illinois personal injury , there will likely be a number of issues that will have to be addressed, such as whether the hazard was easily seen or not, or if the plaintiff could have prevented or remedied the safety issue.
Assisted living center sued after resident trips on telephone wire, dies, The Record, January 19, 2011
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Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes , Nolo
