By Sarah Stultz
Albert Lea Tribune
January 26, 2010
Four of the alleged victims in the highly publicized elder abuse case at Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea and their families have sued the operator of the nursing home and four of the former certified nursing assistants.
The civil lawsuit, filed Monday in Freeborn County District Court, comes on the heels of criminal trials slated for this summer.
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, lawyers with two Minneapolis law firms said the four plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit are alive and are acting in the case via power of attorney granted to relatives. The power-of-attorney relatives filing the suit are Kathy Iverson, LeeAnn Hojberg, Paul Knutson and Morris Blom. The Tribune has withheld the names of the alleged victims.
Former nursing assistants Brianna Broitzman, Ashton Larson, Alicia Heilmann and Kaylee Nash are defendants in the case, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which runs nursing homes in many Upper Midwest cities including the Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea, where the acts of physical, sexual and emotional abuse of residents with dementia are alleged to have occurred.
(*Please go to Source for specifics of the law suit)
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SOURCE: Albert Lea Tribune
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