Another good reason for tort reform and another beginning of the end for the Old and Sick.
Skilled Healthcare, a 22 location nursing home, could not prove they had 3.2 staff member hours per day per patient over a 6 year period, so a group of lawyers in California managed to find 6 blood suckers to sign on for a class action lawsuit.
Skilled did not have one complaint during the six years, but a California jury still found it reasonable to award the Lawyers and the 6 clients $671 MILLION DOLLARS over this violation.
The company, employees, and patients will be in the street if the appeal does not correct it.
This will also signal most other scumbag Lawyers how to get another free million or more so this is just the beginning. Healthcare has another enemy and possibly no chance at surviving.
With this and ObamaCare there will be more people in the streets with no jobs and no healthcare.
Just had a thought, time to invest heavy in funeral homes, they are about to have more growth than anything else.
A class action lawsuit brought by trial lawyers was filed late last year against Skilled Healthcare of California claiming that the company had violated state regulations that stipulates that nursing homes must maintain 3.2 nursing hours per patient, per day (ppd). The lawsuit claimed that the nursing homes operated by Skilled Healthcare often did not meet the requirement.
Interestingly, there was never any claim from any patient that they’d been harmed or put in danger. Not a single patient claimed personal injury before these lawyers began to file their class action lawsuit.
After a six-month trial the jury decided that the company did violate the rules and awarded the plaintiffs $613 million in statutory damages and $58 million in restitutionary damages.
There is a problem with this award, however. The company only has borrowing credit of $94 million. If the company were to be held to this outrageously high award it would go bankrupt and would be forced to close its doors.
Not only that but some 32,000 people — patients/residents and healthcare workers alike — would lose their heatlhcare facilities and jobs if this award were enforced.
July 27, 2010
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