{"id":825,"date":"2017-07-07T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/?p=825"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:21:54","slug":"state-supreme-court-clarifies-elder-abuse-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/state-supreme-court-clarifies-elder-abuse-law\/","title":{"rendered":"State Supreme Court Clarifies Elder Abuse Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcourts.gov\/AZ-Supreme-Court\">Arizona Supreme Court<\/a> has reversed a summary judgment dismissing a nursing home abuse case.<\/p>\n<p>Marika Delgado was the personal representative of the estate of her sister, Sandra Shaw. Delgado appealed the trial court\u2019s entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendants who were collectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caring.com\/local\/nursing-homes-in-tucson-arizona\/manorcare-health-services-21\">Manor Care of Tucson<\/a>.\u00a0 On appeal, Delgado argued that the court erred in finding that the actions that allegedly caused Shaw\u2019s death were not related to her incapacity as required by Arizona law.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Arizona Supreme Court could not say as a matter of law that the alleged negligence that was a cause of Shaw\u2019s death was unrelated to her incapacity, the state Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the trial judge and sent the case back for further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/state-supreme-court-clarifies-elder-abuse-law\/#more-825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Supreme Court has reversed a summary judgment dismissing a nursing home abuse case. Marika Delgado was the personal representative of the estate of her sister, Sandra Shaw. Delgado appealed the trial court\u2019s entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendants who were collectively Manor Care of Tucson.\u00a0 On appeal, Delgado argued that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-living-facilities","category-inadequate-nutrition","category-nursing-home-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Supreme Court Clarifies Elder Abuse Law &#8212; Chicago Nursing Home Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Arizona Supreme Court has reversed a summary judgment dismissing a nursing home abuse case. 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