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Even if you visit your loved one in their nursing home every day, it can be easy to miss signs of abuse. Abusers often work to hide the abuse. If you suspect abuse is occurring, call the police and call a lawyer.
While signs of abuse can be hard to identify, they are often hidden in plain sight. Check with your loved one about any injuries they might have, new and old. If you notice any changes in their health or personality, talk to them about possible abuse. If you believe abuse is indeed happening, call the police and a lawyer immediately. We can begin gathering evidence to support your claims against the nursing home. Medical evaluations and records from the nursing home may be paramount to your case. Recoverable damages may be quite substantial and include the costs of medical care for your loved one and damages for their intense pain and suffering. When reporting the abuse, it is important to contact the police in addition to government agencies that might investigate the nursing home.
Speak to our nursing home abuse attorneys for a free, confidential case assessment by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Abuse is often difficult to spot, even when it is happening right under your nose. First, abusers usually take careful steps to cover up their heinous behavior. Second, many family members have a hard time accepting that their loved one has been abused in their nursing home. It is a tough thing to accept. However, the sooner you acknowledge the abuse, the sooner you can help your loved one.
A typical red flag in nursing home abuse cases is injuries to your loved one. While accidents sometimes occur, they are usually quickly treated and thoroughly documented by the nursing home. If your loved one has injuries that appear as though they were never treated, and the nursing home has no record of the injuries, you should be concerned. Unreported injuries are common in cases of physical abuse.
You should also watch for changes in your loved one’s overall health. People living in nursing home facilities usually have underlying medical conditions or complications that hinder them from living on their own. Changes in a nursing home resident’s health might be a sign of abuse. Something might be wrong if your loved one’s health suddenly and rapidly declines.
Changes in your loved one’s weight might also indicate abuse. In some cases, abuse victims lose interest in food as a result of being trapped in a deep depression. In other cases, abusers withhold food from their victims, leading to weight loss.
Even if your loved one’s physical condition does not change, changes in their personality might be indicative of abuse. Has your loved one become despondent, sullen, or irritable? These kinds of changes might mean they are being abused.
Abuse can be hard to prove, as many abusers work very hard to cover their tracks and hide evidence. Even so, our team has experience with these kinds of claims and can help you find the evidence you need to get justice for your loved ones.
A great source of evidence in nursing home abuse cases is security camera footage. Many, if not most, nursing homes are monitored by cameras, and they might have captured an instance of abuse on video. Our nursing home abuse lawyers can use this kind of footage to prove exactly who abused your loved one.
You should also consider installing a security camera in your loved one’s private room. In the neighboring state of Illinois, a specific law allows people to install cameras in private rooms. The Illinois Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act allows people to place cameras in their rooms as long as they inform the nursing home and get consent from any roommates. While this law does not necessarily exist in Indiana, it is still an option worth trying.
An extremely important bit of evidence in abuse cases is medical records and evaluations. If your loved one was abused, we need to send them to a doctor immediately. They might have current injuries that need attention. A doctor might also be able to identify old injuries that were never treated. Their records may be crucial to prove that abuse occurred and how long it has been going on.
Damages in cases involving nursing home abuse are sometimes associated with significant damages. Abuse often leaves victims with hefty medical bills and deep psychological scars. Considering the heinous nature of abuse cases, juries might be more willing to award greater damages to plaintiffs.
Your loved one’s economic damages may stem from their medical expenses, damaged property, and even fees paid to the nursing home where they were abused. Medical expenses tend to take center stage when considering economic damages. Not only might they need medical care for existing injuries from abuse, but they might need treatment for older injuries that were never reported. Many abuse victims were already in less-than-stellar health when they arrived at the nursing home, and they might need more extensive and costly treatment to recover.
Abusers often go to great lengths to torment their victims. In some cases, victims report their personal belongings being destroyed by abusers. Sometimes, they even steal money from their victims. If this happens to your loved one, they can claim these costs as part of their damages.
We might even claim some of the money you have paid to the nursing home. Your loved one was not being taken care of as you were promised. If we cannot get your money back, we can claim damages for the money you spend on a new nursing home or private at-home care.
Non-economic damages may be quite substantial in abuse cases. Not only is abuse known for leaving victims with serious psychological scars, but abuse in nursing homes can be especially traumatic. People who live in nursing homes are often unable to leave on their own. They might also be unable to speak up about the abuse because of a medical condition or because of fear.
As such, many victims feel trapped with their abusers. The whole experience can take an enormous mental and emotional toll on victims. These experiences deserve significant compensation.
Speak to our nursing home abuse attorneys for a free, confidential case assessment by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Don is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top-ranked personal injury litigators. He is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes less than 1% of the nation’s trial lawyers, and awarded the highest ranking given by Martindale Hubbel and AVVO.
More importantly, Don understands representing personal injury victims is about more than recovering the best settlement: it’s about helping clients get back on their feet and supporting them in every aspect of their recovery.
In nearly all cases, our clients seek compensation from the wrongdoer’s insurance company. Before forming Wruck Paupore, Jason worked for a prominent law firm representing some of the world’s largest insurers. This experience gives Jason a deep understanding of the insurance industry and the strategies it uses to pay injury victims as little as possible.
Jason -- and our entire team -- put this inside knowledge to work to force insurance companies to pay what is actually owed. Often, we use the insurance company’s own tactics against them as we fight for the full compensation our client deserves.
For more than four decades, Keith has been fighting for injury victims. During that time, he’s watched the insurance industry change, with insurers now more interested in protecting their stock price than treating injury victims fairly.
Since the beginning, Keith has put people first. From his childhood in Gary, Indiana during the 1960’s and working his way through law school, Keith has risen to become one of the Midwest’s most respected trial lawyers. He has never forgotten that being a lawyer is about helping people -- and seeing injury victims through struggles in a way that could change their lives forever.
Over the decades, Keith, Don and Jason have fought relentlessly for clients, even when other lawyers have said the case was impossible to win.
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