Nursing Home Injury Litigation: Common Claims, Medical Records, and Damages Assessment

Mr. Conley has significant experience in litigation in a variety of areas with an emphasis in health care litigation involving hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. He also is experienced in health care regulatory matters, including issues involving federal and state regulations and licensing, survey and certification.

A former defense lawyer who clerked for an appellate judge after law school, Mr. Morris limits his practice at this time to the representation of families and individuals who have suffered catastrophic injuries. His legal practice spans the entire state of Tennessee, and he is one of the few attorneys in Tennessee to obtain seven-figure verdicts or settlements in each of Tennessee’s three grand divisions (Western/Middle/Eastern). Since 2003, Mr. Morris, serving primarily as lead counsel, has collected more than $90 million for his clients. He has handled cases involving nursing home facility fires, medication errors, bed sores, severe dehydration, facility elopement and sexual assault in the health care setting as well as catastrophic personal injury matters involving premises liability, negligent tractor trailer operators, drivers who have fled the scene, and insurance companies refusing to pay submitted claims. Mr. Morris is a frequent state-wide lecturer for the Tennessee Bar Association on matters pertaining to medical/facility negligence, is past President of the TBA Tort & Insurance Section, and also maintains an active pro bono practice involving wrongful eviction/consumer protection. He is currently serving as a Trustee of The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is a past Board member for Tennis Memphis and an adoption agency in Memphis.

Ms. Valentino is a member of the firm’s Long-Term Care and Elder Law, Healthcare, and Medical Malpractice Practices. She has engaged in numerous arbitrations and mediations and successfully tried to verdict multiple medical malpractice cases on behalf of physicians, nurses and hospitals, long-term care facilities and its employees. Ms. Valentino is the past President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.