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Punitive Damages in Lawsuits Against Nursing Homes

Pages 115-129 | Published online: 10 Nov 2010

References

  • See SENAIE SPECIAL COMNOTTEE ON ACHNG, CALIFORNIA NURSING HOMES: CARE PROBLEMS PERSIST DESPITE FEDERAL AND STATE OVERSIGHT 1,1998 GAO/HEHS 202.
  • Angel a S. Qui n, Imposing Federal Criminal Liability on Nursing Homes: A Way of Deterring Inadequate Health Care and Improving the Quality of Care Delivered?, 43 ST. Louis U.L.J. 653,6S4 (1999).
  • Margaret M. Flirt, Nursing Homes, 294 PLVEST 447, 449.
  • See generally Jeffrey Spitzer-Resrack & Maya Krajcinovic, Protecting the Rights of Nursing Home Residents: How Tort Liability Interacts with Statutory Protections, 19 NOVA L. REV. 629 (1995) (discussing various private rights of action against nursing homes for inadequate care).
  • Michael L. Rustad, Unraveling Punitive Damages: Current Data and Further Inquiry, 1998 Wis. L. REV. 15,40.
  • Andrew Kramer, M.D., Testimony before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, June 30,1999,1999 WL458229, at *1.
  • See, e.g., Marshall B. Kapp, Malpractice Liability in Long-Term Care: A Changing Environment, 24 CBEIGHTQN L. REV. 123S (1991); Quin, supra note 3, at 658; Julie A. Braun & Elizabeth A. Capezuti, The Legal and Medical Aspects of Physical Restraints and Bed Siderails and Their Relationship to Falls and Fall-Related Injuries in Nursing Homes, 4 DEPAUL J. HEALIH CARE L. 1, 32 (2000). See also Klein v. Columbia Hotel Corp., 49 CaI. Rptr. 2d 60, 64 (CaI. App. 1996) (relying on state licensing regulations in establishing the appropriate standard of care); Dusine v. Golden Shores Convalescent Ctr., 249 So. 2d 40,41 (Fla. App. 1991) (approving the admission of a state regulation).
  • HEALIH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEBUOMENT, HEALIH CARE ADMINISTRATE FACT SHEET: ASSURING THE
  • QUALITY OF NURSING HOMECARE (July 21, 1998), at http://www.hhs.gov (visited on Feb. 27,2001).
  • Julie A. Braun & Cheryl C. Mitchell, Recent Developments in Senior 's Law, 34 TORT & INS. L.J. 669, 687 (1999).
  • Seymour Moskowitz, Saving Granny from the Wolf: Elder Abuse and Neglect--A Legal Framework, 31 CONN. L. REV. 77, 105 (1998).
  • WiIIiam J. Scanlon, Testimony before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Mar. 18, 1999, GAO/HEHS 46, at 2.

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