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Nursing Home Denies Wrongdoing in Response to Lawsuit over Death of Resident

By Levin & Perconti

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Joyce Earline Bigelow, a patient at MontVue Nursing Home, died last October after taking a fall in the nursing home. Bigelow suffered complications after she fell while trying to use the restroom without assistance. The fall came after repeated instructions from Bigelow?s family to the nursing home staff that she required assistance when using the bathroom. After the fall, Bigelow suffered complications and died a few weeks later. As a result, Bigelow?s daughter sued the nursing home?s parent company for $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The parent company denies any negligence and claims that Bigelow did not fall, but instead that staff was helping her use the restroom when she became unable to support her own weight so they lowered her to the floor. The home claims that the staff then took her to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries. The family?s lawsuit allegations involve wrongful death and nursing home negligence.

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Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).

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