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

Mr. Conley chair of Baker Donelson's Health Care Litigation Group 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. Mr. Conley has served as lead counsel as well as co-counsel in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts in Tennessee and throughout the United States. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, He was in house counsel for Federal Express Corporation within the litigation department with a focus on labor and employment. Mr. Conley also served as law clerk to the Honorable W. Frank Crawford of the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section.

With over $45 million in settlements and verdicts since 2003, Mr. Morris has handled a number of high-profile cases for clients in Tennessee and across the south involving wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury. He has obtained for clients 11 separate seven-figure settlements, 15 separate settlements over $700,000, and recently obtained a $900,000 verdict for the family of a woman neglected at a Memphis-area nursing home in December, 2009. Nursing abuse and neglect cases represented include injury, preventable falls, dehydration, food poisoning, bed sores, sexual molestation and rape, chemical restraints, and wrongful death.

Ms. Valentino is a partner in the Chicago and Albuquerque offices of Lewis Brisbois with 29 years of experience. She has experienced defending hospitals, physicians, nurses, home healthcare agencies and their employees. Ms. Valentino has also successfully handled and defended multiple general liability and products liability cases. She has engaged in numerous arbitrations, mediations and successfully tried to verdict multiple medical malpractice cases on behalf of physicians, nurses, hospitals, long-term care facilities and its employees.