Burn Injury Lawsuits Against Nursing Homes

Residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities depend on the facility staff to assist them with many day to day activities, such as moving around the facility, assisting them at meal times, and bathroom and personal hygiene needs. It is an unfortunate fact, however, that many nursing homes are woefully understaffed, and in these situations even the best nursing home employees will have trouble providing the proper levels of attention to every resident under their care. In nursing homes that allow their staff to be stretched so thin the staff members are not capable of doing their jobs as they should, and consequently the possibility that residents will have accidents and be injured increases greatly.

In situations such as these, burn injuries due to the negligence of the nursing home are not uncommon, and some of the more frequent examples involve things like:

• Residents burned in scalding bath water or showers.
• Residents burned by hot water spills.
• Residents burned by excessively hot food or drinks.
• Residents burned while smoking without necessary supervision.
• Residents burned in fires at nursing facilities.

If a resident in a nursing home is hurt by a serious or fatal burn injury because of nursing home abuse or negligence, the resident and their family have the right to seek to hold the facility and its staff accountable for their wrongs. Nursing home lawsuits don’t just help victims of abuse and neglect recover compensation for their damages, but also act to send a message to nursing home and extended care facilities that the law will protect seniors, and see to it that abuse and neglect will be punished.

At Levin & Perconti, our expert legal team has successfully recovered compensation for nursing home residents who have suffered serious burn injuries in Illinois facilities. Some of our recent success stories include: