Deceased Woman Wins Claim against Nursing Home

The heirs of a woman who fell and broken her left leg due to the alleged negligence of an Illinois nursing home, have won their claim for personal injury compensation after a trial which lasted a full week.

Delia Marguerite Giannini (now deceased) resided at the Rosewood Care Centre in Swansea, St. Clair County until her recent death. In 2006, she sued the nursing home following a fall the previous year in which she broke her left femur above the knee. In her claim she alleged that the nursing home had failed to take measures to prevent a fall in line with an anti-wandering policy the nursing home had implemented.

In their defence, the Rosewood Care Centre that the leg broke first and this caused the fall – stating that it was not possible to allocate a member of staff to watch Mrs Giannini at all times. However, the jury found in favour of the claimant and awarded the administrators of her estate 10,000 dollars in respect of the pain and suffering she would have experienced at the time of the accident.