A recent article from a long term care news outlet warned nursing home owners and operators about plaintiffs attorneys seeking outsized payouts, going after investors, and appealing to jurors’ growing distrust of the long term care industry. Readers were told that large jury verdicts of over $10 million could be on the rise. The answer, the article concludes, is to seek state laws imposing caps on verdicts. Maddeningly, there is no reference to improving care, reducing neglect and the number of resident accidents, or investing in better staffing levels. Until facility operators realize that they are to blame for the outrage jurors feel – not plaintiffs’ attorneys – and get their act together, there will indeed be more large jury verdicts.
