Jury returns million-dollar elder abuse verdict against Auburn nursing home
By Cynthia Hubert
May. 12, 2010
A Sacramento County Superior Court jury has found an Auburn nursing home guilty of elder abuse in the death of a Northern California woman in 2005.
The jury awarded $1.1 million in damages for Frances Tanner's "pain and suffering" and for the loss of companionship to her daughter, Elizabeth Pao. Punitive damages against the home, Colonial Healthcare, and its parent company, Horizon West of Rocklin, are to be announced Thursday morning.
Carole Herman, founder of the advocacy group Foundation Aiding the Elderly, said the ruling was only the second jury verdict for elder abuse in Sacramento County history. "It is a monumental verdict," she said.
Tanner, 79, was spirited, talkative and mobile when she moved into the facility in March 2005. Seven months later, after a fall that resulted in a broken hip, she was dead from an infected bed sore.
Colonial, which recently changed its name to Hilltop Manor, has a history of problems with state regulators. The state moved last year to revoke Colonial's license but instead reached a settlement agreement with the home that allowed it to remain open.
SOURCE: MODBEE.COM
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