Source: http://centerjd.org/content/fact-sheet-lawsuits-save-seniors-lives
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 01:56:18+00:00

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Senior citizens across the country have suffered tremendously as a result of defective and dangerous products and practices. Many of these products and practices were made safer only after the families of sick and injured seniors filed lawsuits against those responsible.
Insurance companies have callously abdicated their loss prevention responsibilities. With their vast resources and influence, insurance companies should be controlling and minimizing hazards that cause injury and death to seniors. For example, they should be disclosing information about hazards to those responsible for ensuring safety and to the public, and using their own rating functions to penalize insured who do not improve safety. But even repeated litigation arising from well-known and identical hazards has not prompted the insurance industry to insist on the elimination of avoidable dangers for seniors. Instead, these companies are using their resources in a malevolent campaign to restrict the rights of sick and injured seniors who suffer malnourishment in nursing homes and other devastating harms.
As the following examples show, the lives of countless other seniors and many millions of dollars in future health care costs have been saved as a result of lawsuits. Laws that make it more difficult for seniors and their families to sue (so-called “tort reform”) would be devastating for our nation’s seniors.
1 Olson v. Chisolm Trail Living & Rehabilitation Center, No. 98-0363 (Caldwell County Ct., Tex., verdict August 26, 1999).
2 Widmann v. Paoli Memorial Hospital, No. 85-1034 (E.D. Pa., verdict December 9, 1988).
3 Trew v. Smith & Davis Mfg. Co., No. SF 95-354 (Santa Fe County Jud. Dist. Ct., N.M., verdict July 19, 1996).
4 Hamilton v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., No. SC060655 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct., Cal., settlement August 2, 2000).
5 Beale v. Beechnut Manor Living, No. 90-18826 (Harris County Dist. Ct., Tex., verdict May 21, 1992).
6 Borom v. Eli Lilly & Company, No. 83-0038-COL (M.D. Ga., verdict November 21, 1983).
7 Roberts v. Aluminum Company of America, No. C86-0013 (Salt Lake County Ct., Utah, verdict December 5, 1987).

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