In December 2025, a Washington County Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a 86-year-old woman in the amount of $1,790,000 who died three weeks after suffering a fall and sustaining a femur fracture while in a nursing home. The defendant reportedly offered zero to settle the claim before trial.
The woman’s prior medical history included blood cancer that affected her bones. Prior to 2022, she had suffered fractures to her left hip, right hip, rib, ankle, and her lumbar and sacral spine. Her left hip fracture resulted in the surgical placement of a rod in her left femur after which she went to an assisted living facility for continuing care. While she was residing in the assisted living facility in 2022, she sustained compression fractures to her sacral and lumbar spine due to sitting down on a shower chair too hard.
She was transported to the hospital where she was treated for her compression fractures and was diagnosed as being in congestive heart failure. Her white blood cell count was also abnormal, which was attributed to her blood cancer. She remained in the hospital for ten days after which she was discharged to a nursing home that was expected to be for short-term rehabilitation care. While in the nursing home, she suffered a fall two weeks after her arrival, which resulted in a left femur fracture that was diagnosed the day after her fall. The following day, she underwent surgery. She was then placed in hospice care. She died three weeks after her fall in the nursing home.
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They often promise that they tailor care to individual needs, promoting dignity, choice, privacy, and self-respect; they treat residents with kindness, understanding, and heartfelt care; and, that they deliver high standards of clinical care, aiming for continuous improvement, and striving for the best outcomes.
If you or a loved one may have been injured (or worse) as a result of nursing home malpractice in Maryland or in another U.S. state due to nursing home pressure ulcer (nursing home bedsore) negligence, nursing home infection, nursing home fall, nursing home aspiration, nursing home neglect, nursing home negligence, nursing home abuse, nursing home understaffing, or the nursing home failing to properly care for a vulnerable adult, you should promptly find a Maryland medical malpractice lawyer (nursing home claim lawyer), or a medical malpractice lawyer in your state, who may investigate your nursing home malpractice claim for you and represent you or your loved one in a nursing home malpractice case, if appropriate.
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