{"id":263,"date":"2014-08-05T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagonursinghomelawyersblog.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2014-08-05T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T22:06:27","slug":"jury-enters-record-setting-43-5-million-nursing-home-abuse-case-neglect-80-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/jury-enters-record-setting-43-5-million-nursing-home-abuse-case-neglect-80-year-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Enters Record-Setting $43.5 Million Nursing Home Abuse Case for the Neglect of an 80-Year-Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia jury has awarded $43.5 million in damages related to the abuse and neglect of an 80-year-old man, Morris Ellison. Ellison was a resident of a nursing home where the ownership held title to a string of nursing facilities in and around the state of Georgia. Ellison eventually died in this nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the neglect and possible abuse, Ellison was found to have been malnourished, dehydrated and lacking sufficient nursing and medical care, all of which was a contributing factor in hastening his death. But the background of this catastrophic case was that the nursing home owners had bilked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/\">Medicare<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/medicaid.gov\/\">Medicaid<\/a> out of tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the nursing home&#8217;s individual owner and his wife ran three nursing facilities or long-term care facilities in Georgia. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2010\/09\/04\/Jury-awards-435M-for-nursing-home-death\/UPI-44961283624973\/\">newspaper reports<\/a>, this couple had a net worth of almost $100 million, relying almost exclusively on Medicaid and Medicare payments to operate their nursing home empire. According to the testimony in the case, one of the nursing home directors stated that the facilities were so lacking in funds that they were unable to pay for laundry, essential supplies and personnel wages for the nursing homes. The owners were systematically draining money out of the nursing homes, which resulted in a lack of food supplies, water, medicine, personnel and basic cleaning supplies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/jury-enters-record-setting-43-5-million-nursing-home-abuse-case-neglect-80-year-old-man\/#more-263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia jury has awarded $43.5 million in damages related to the abuse and neglect of an 80-year-old man, Morris Ellison. Ellison was a resident of a nursing home where the ownership held title to a string of nursing facilities in and around the state of Georgia. Ellison eventually died in this nursing home. 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