Posted On: November 11, 2006
Use caution when identifying the correct defendant in nursing home cases
Whether you have a nursing home case against an Illinois company or a national company you must be sure to identify and sue the proper entity. Defendant corporations are becoming much more adept at the corporate shell game.
"In the last five years, most of the nation's large nursing home chains have undergone major corporate restructuring. The goal: separating the chains' real property and assets from their operations to avoid financial liability for legal claims, including those alleging negligent care or abuse of residents. States like Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas-which have significant elderly populations-have been affected most by this trend, but homes in other states are following suit. Nursing home corporate structures used to be different. In the 1990s, most of the national nursing home chains operated in a similar manner. These for-profit chains included Beverly Enterprises, Mariner, Extendicare, HCR Manorcare, Kindred, Genesis, and LifeCare. Most of them divided up the country and each state into regions, and each region contained a handful of nursing homes."Nathan P. Carter, TRIAL Magazine, November 2006
http://www.atla.org/publications/trial/0611/carter1.aspx
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