Philadelphia Nursing Home trial results in a “first ever” punitive damages award
My friends Churchill Houston and Steve Maher from the Maher Law Firm received a $5 million punitive damages verdict today from a Philadelphia county jury. I’m just posting the good news here. The full story is on line from the Philadelphia Inquirer in this article: “Unusual damages verdict in Philadelphia bedsores case.”
To my knowledge, this is the first ever punitive damages verdict in Pennsylvania in a nursing home case. The co-defendant in this case was Jeannes Hospital. The verdict was assessed $3.5 million against Hillcrest (a Genesis owned nursing home) and $1.5 million against non-profit Jeannes Hospital.
