Date: 06/12/2013
June 12 & 19, 2013
Seminar Overview:
- The Federal and New York State Statutes and Regulations governing Nursing Homes litigation
- What Federal and New York State mandated documents Nursing Homes are required to keep
- and how to use them
- A discussion of the different types of Nursing Home Cases and how they impact your clients? compensation
- How to litigate a pressure ulcer case: Common defenses, know the statistics, get the documents, take the depositions and photos vs. no photos
- Application of the public health law to your deposition in a pressure ulcer case
- Using the Director of Nursing to set the standard of care in a pressure ulcer case
- Define "avoidable" and "unavoidable" as applied to pressure ulcers
- How to determine if the medical chart has been tampered with
- Review pressure ulcers as a quality indicator
- When to use and not to use a Forensic Expert when you have a tampered medical record
- Review the historical and regulatory context of the ?avoidable vs. unavoidable? debate
- Review contemporary opinions regarding avoidability
- Nursing Home Litigation as a growth field
- What you need to know before handling your first nursing home case
- How to effectively depose nursing home witnesses so that punitive damages can be obtained
- What to look for before you agree to sign up a Nursing Home case
- Proving the Nursing Home case - what is the standard of care?
- Background/Public Policy leading to 2801(d)
- Punitive damages
- Strategies for trying Nursing Home Cases: problems and pitfalls
Faculty:
Michael Feldman, Esq. - Chair
Nursing Home 101: A discussion on the PHL 2801d and basic Nursing Home issues
Jacoby & Meyers
Honorable Stanley Green
The Judicial Perspective on Nursing Home Cases
Bronx County Supreme Court
Wendy Fleishman, Esq.
Qui Tam Actions for Nursing Homes
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLPDavid J. Hoey, Esq.
How to Litigate a Pressure Ulcer case
Law Office of David J. Hoey, P.C.
Jeffrey M. Levine, MD
A Medical Expert?s Perspective on Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes
Beth Israel Medical Center
Benjamin E. Setareh, Esq.
Pressure Ulcer Depositions, Tampered Nursing Home Records
Benjamin E. Setareh, P.C.
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