A resident falls. A pressure ulcer develops. An infection turns serious. To a grieving family — and to a jury primed by their own memories of aging parents — each of these can look like proof that someone failed.
When the plaintiff's attorney writes an enormous figure on the courtroom board, most jurors have never seen a number that large attached to a real person. That is the point. The number is not a calculation. It is an anchor.
Long-term care litigation is challenging in a single jurisdiction, but defending cases across multiple states introduces an entirely new level of complexity.
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