San Diego Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Attorneys
Berman & Riedel, LLP - Attorneys at Law
858-350-8855 - San Diego, CA Home Office - Practicing throughout the State of California
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San Diego, California - Talk about a bizarre set of circumstances that gave rise to a most rightful case of elder neglect. The facts are almost too unbelievable to be true.
The family of 85-year-old K.C. (last name withheld for family’s privacy) believed they had found a safe, comfortable facility to care for their father during [...]
By: Christopher C. Walton, Attorney at Law
PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - The California Department of Public Health has initiated an action to revoke Colonial Healthcare’s operating license. This action resulted from the Auburn, California facility receiving its third “AA” citation, as well as an “A” citation and eleven “B” citations, since 2005. As a [...]
By: Christopher C. Walton, Attorney at Law
LEMON GROVE, CALIFORNIA - The California Department of Public Health instituted an investigation after a 74-year-old resident of Lemon Grove Care & Rehabilitation Center caught fire as she attempted to light a cigarette with her jacket while standing within the facility’s designated smoking area. As a result, the [...]
By U. Kelley Riedel, Attorney at law
CALIFORNIA - The American Burn Association has revealed that elderly adults, those 65 years of age or older, are two to four times more likely to die from a burn injury than the average American. More than 1,200 elderly Americans die from these injuries every year, and the [...]
CALIFORNIA - Casa Bonita Convalescent Hospital received three separate citations and fines totaling $121,000 from the California Department of Public Health after its investigation concluded that grossly substandard care led to a resident’s death.
The resident, who was entirely dependent on an ventilator for breathing, died after the ventilator became disconnected, and the problem went unnoticed [...]
By: William M. Berman, Managing Partner of Berman & Riedel, LLP
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A passerby spotted the body of an elderly man in the bushes to the side of the southbound 405 Freeway near Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The victim, yet to be identified, appeared to be in his mid-60s, and was [...]
By: Ray Huard, Staff Writer for the San Diego Union Tribune [re-printed with permission of the San Diego Union Tribune]
EAST COUNTY COURTS - An El Cajon woman who was permanently brain damaged as a result of the care she received at a county-owned nursing home has been awarded $1.6 million in a court settlement.
Ruth [...]
Pain, Suffering: Suit alleges workers at board and care facility left woman lying in her own vomit.
By: Tamara Koehler, Staff Writer for the Thousand Oaks Star [re-printed with permission]
The family of an elderly Oxnard woman who died after workers at a board and care facility were ordered to leave her lying in her own vomit [...]
Elder abuse Attorney William M. Berman was recently awarded a $1,600,000 settlement for a woman who suffered brain damage as a result of poor nursing home care at a county-owned nursing home in El Cajon, California. The settlement was featured in the San Diego Union Tribune.
Read the full story here.
By: Onell Soto, Staff Writer for the San Diego Union Tribune [* This article was written by San Diego Union Tribune staff writer Onell Soto and appeared in the December 28, 2002 edition of the Union Tribune and has been reprinted with permission of the San Diego Union Tribune. The names of the defendant parties, [...]
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