“Legal experts warn of incoming lawsuits for long-term care,” by Amy Novotney, McKnight’s Senior Living

 

 

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“Legal teams for both long-term care operators and the residents and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic are gearing up for lawsuits alleging neglect and wrongful death as a result of the virus — proceedings in which many of the rules are still being determined. ‘It’s not very often that you’re on the cusp of an entirely new cause of action,’ Rachel Stahle, a nursing home abuse and neglect attorney and a partner at Kansas City, MO-based law firm Dollar Burns & Becker, told Modern Healthcare.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Here come the lawyers to feast on the pandemic’s road kill.