Friday, November 19, 2010

 

Nursing Home Death Award

KENTUCKY...
The family of a man for died after nine days in a Madisonville nursing home has won a $42.75 million verdict.

Attorney Lisa Circeo argued in court that 92-year-old Joseph Clint Offutt died because Harborside of Madisonville staff neglected him. She said Offutt suffered severe dehydration, malnutrition, bedsores and infections, all of which lead to his death in April 2008.

Offutt was a World War II veteran who was still planting crops at age 88. After a stroke in 2007, his wife of 58 years, Pearline, cared for him at home for eight months before the family decided he needed professional care.

Nursing home administrator Carol Britt told the Lexington Herald-Leader the size of Tuesday's verdict was "outrageous and totally inappropriate." She said the company would appeal.





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