New York Personal Injury Attorney For Nursing Home Abuse

Nursing Home Abuse Cases

Care, kindness and dignity should be expressed to anyone, no matter their race, creed, religion or age.  Just because someone that is getting old and cannot defend themselves as well as someone younger is no reason to neglect or abuse them.  Every elderly person should be in a loving environment with the best of care and respect.  Many elderly have helped other people throughout their lives and have made the world a better place to live in.  They deserve all the respect and care that one can give them. 

Quite often a family will be taking care of an elderly parent, but experience circumstances where they cannot provide the required care any longer.  Therefore, they place the elderly person in a nursing home.  Some nursing homes give the best of care and provide a kind and caring environment for the person.  

Even though this would be ideal for all nursing homes to give the appropriate care, sadly there are many who would take advantage of the elderly through neglect or abuse.  There are numerous nursing homes that abuse and mistreat seniors or other patients.  Nursing home abuse can come in various forms and is not always clearly evident.   For that reason it is important to find a competent New York personal injury attorney that will aggressively defend senior's humanitarian and legal rights. You need an attorney that will thoroughly investigate the abuse claims and prepare a strong case.  Segal & Lax is the firm you can trust to do that for you.

Some signs of nursing home abuse are:

• Bruising from various falls
• Bed sores
• Verbal abuse
• Intentional assault
• Dehydration
• Malnutrition/starvation
• Excessive or over medicating
• Wandering outside facility without supervision
• Wrongful death

New York Attorney Advocates Respect for the Elderly

Mark S. Segal, Esq. and his legal staff has been practicing law for over 20 years and has experience with all forms of nursing home abuse cases.  With care and dedication, our firm will provide you with individual and personal attention to your needs during the handling of your loved one's personal injury claim.