Nursing Home Litigation: Pretrial Practice and Trials, Second Edition

The litigation of neglect and abuse of the elderly in assisted living and nursing home facilities is unlike any other personal injury litigation. The second edition of Nursing Home Litigation: Pretrial Practice and Trials has been significantly expanded and will provide you with a detailed step-by-step look at how nursing home cases should be handled. New topics include:

Handling older witnesses: the defense perspecive

Preparing nursing home staff for deposition

The preparation and use of demonstrative evidence

Fighting fraud in long-term care

Voir dire, opening arguments and closing arguments

Punitive damages

The role of nutrition

The Medicare "super lein"

CD-ROM of actual depositions of nurses, administrators, directors of nursing and upper

management in nursing homes