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Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers in
Kentucky & Tennessee

Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers in Kentucky & Tennessee

Trusting a nursing home to take care of your elderly relative can be a difficult decision to make. When decided, you want the nursing facility to provide the best care possible for your loved one. Sometimes, however, the staff at nursing homes take advantage of their patients, even going so far as physically and emotionally abusing them. This can lead to devastating injuries or even death.

Trusting a nursing home to take care of your elderly relative can be a difficult decision to make. When decided, you want the nursing facility to provide the best care possible for your loved one. Sometimes, however, the staff at nursing homes take advantage of their patients, even going so far as physically and emotionally abusing them. This can lead to devastating injuries or even death.

WHAT WE DO

What Do Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers Do?

Finding out that a relative has been the victim of nursing home abuse can be devastating, and seeking justice for his or her injuries can be a complicated process. We help victims and their families navigate this emotional, stressful, and overwhelming circumstance and get the compensation they deserve.

how we help

How Can Hughes & Coleman
Personal Injury Lawyers Help Victims of Nursing Home Abuse?

How Can Hughes & Coleman Personal Injury Lawyers Help Victims of Nursing Home Abuse?

  • Help you and your loved ones understand your rights.
  • File claims for you.
  • Collect evidence and medical documents.
  • Fight for victims’ rights until the case is closed.

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  • Over $1 Billion Recovered for Our Clients

    We strive to help our clients achieve the results they deserve from their injury claims.

  • We Don’t Get Paid Until You Get Paid

    We don’t charge fees in the event that you are unable to recover compensation.

  • Helping Accident Victims for Over 35 Years

    Let us handle the legal red tape while you and your family spend time healing.

Helping Accident Victims for Over 35 Years

Let us handle the legal red tape while you and your family spend time healing.

We Don’t Get Paid Until You Get Paid

We don’t charge fees in the event that you are unable to recover compensation.

Over $1 Billion Recovered for Our Clients

We strive to help our clients achieve the results they deserve from their injury claims.

Frequently Asked Questions About Nursing Home Abuse Claims

An elderly patient in a nursing home can experience a wide variety of abuse, including:

  • Intimidation or humiliation
  • Financial exploitation
  • Isolation and ignoring the patient
  • Emotional or physical abuse
  • Bedsores/pressure sores
  • Lack of hygiene and unsanitary living conditions
  • Sexual abuse
  • Unacceptable use of restraints
  • Lack of adequate care in administering medication

If you suspect that a loved one is being abused or neglected after being placed in a nursing home, then be sure to look for the following common signs of abuse:

  • Injuries or bruises that are unexplained
  • Poor living conditions
  • Hygiene problems
  • Malnutrition/dehydration
  • Change in behavior or mood
  • Weight loss
  • Unusual and unexplained decline in health
  • Missing money or personal items
  • Bedsores/pressure sores
  • Broken bones
  • Improper medication administration

Most nursing homes do their best to provide adequate and compassionate care for residents. However, even the most professional nursing home that adheres to the highest medical and ethical standards could sometimes fall short in its service. When this occurs, residents and/or their family members may file one or more of the following complaints:

  • Poor quality of food
  • Long response time
  • Needs not being met on time and effectively
  • Lack of staff to attend to the resident’s needs
  • Poor social interaction
  • Sleep disruption

Most nursing homes work hard to eliminate these bottlenecks so that their residents can be comfortable and live a life that’s as close to normal as can be. Unfortunately, sometimes, the efforts of the caregivers and the nursing home management aren’t enough. When caregivers fail in their duties, the elderly residents end up getting hurt, or sometimes even wrongfully die. This lapse in service delivery can be the basis for a nursing home abuse lawsuit. If you’d like some help with that, fill out our form or call. Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers.

If you file a nursing home abuse or neglect lawsuit, you may be able to file against both the employees that caused the injury and the nursing home establishment itself. Under the doctrine of vicarious liability, the nursing home would be responsible for the actions of the employees that it hired. One of the most common claims against nursing homes is the civil claim of negligence, where a nursing home fails to abide by a standard of care. There are a variety of options for filing a negligence claim against a nursing home including:

  • Negligent supervision of employees
  • Negligent hiring of employees
  • Failure to hire enough employees to meet the needs of the facility
  • Failure to keep the facility up to code or regulation
  • Failure to properly train employees
  • Failure to conform to requirements imposed by law

In addition to civil claims, a criminal penalty might be available for the person or people who caused harm to your loved ones. States have different age requirements for individuals in order for the harm to rise to the higher level of elder abuse.

If you have a loved one who was abused or neglected while in a nursing home, then the first thing you should do is contact a nursing home abuse attorney to discuss the specifics of your case. The attorneys at Hughes & Coleman are experienced in fighting for the justice that your loved one deserves. The steps that will need to be taken can vary from case to case. Let us help you today—simply call. or fill out a case evaluation form and one of our team members will contact you at a time that is convenient for you. This process is 100% free, so you and your loved one have nothing to lose.

Locations

Our Best-in-Class Personal Injury Lawyers have Proudly Served Kentucky and Tennessee for Over 35 years.

1256 Campbell Ln #201
Bowling Green, KY 42104

(270) 782-6000

2110 N Dixie Hwy #102
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

(270) 737-0640

211 E New Circle Rd
Lexington, KY 40505

(859) 260-1722

5004 Poplar Level Rd
Louisville, KY 40219

(502) 585-4025

3618 Dixie Hwy
Louisville, KY 40216

(502) 585-4693

725 Speckman Rd
Louisville, KY 40243

(502) 313-6763

446 James Robertson Pkwy #100
Nashville, TN 37219

(615) 255-9100

323 N Riverside Dr #100
Clarksville, TN 37040

(931) 546-7200

622 W 7th St
Columbia, TN 38401

(931) 505-7040

126 W Eastland Ave
Gallatin, TN 37066

(615) 451-4288

1501 Memorial Blvd
Murfreesboro, TN 37129

(615) 907-0687

1256 Campbell Ln #201
Bowling Green, KY 42104

(270) 782-6000

2110 N Dixie Hwy #102
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

(270) 737-0640

211 E New Circle Rd
Lexington, KY 40505

(859) 260-1722

5004 Poplar Level Rd
Louisville, KY 40219

(502) 585-4025

3618 Dixie Hwy
Louisville, KY 40216

(502) 585-4693

725 Speckman Rd
Louisville, KY 40243

(502) 313-6763

446 James Robertson Pkwy #100
Nashville, TN 37219

(615) 255-9100

323 N Riverside Dr #100
Clarksville, TN 37040

(931) 546-7200

622 W 7th St
Columbia, TN 38401

(931) 505-7040

126 W Eastland Ave
Gallatin, TN 37066

(615) 451-4288

1501 Memorial Blvd
Murfreesboro, TN 37129

(615) 907-0687