Asheville Nursing Home Injury Lawyer

Confronting Compensation Deficiencies In Health Care

Nursing homes provide essential care to thousands of elderly residents throughout the Asheville area. The families of these residents trust nursing homes to provide safe and effective daily care, and the people working in these facilities have tremendous professional responsibilities they must uphold. If you were hurt while working in a nursing home, an experienced Asheville nursing home injury lawyer can help you recover.

Representing Nursing Home Injury Claims in Asheville, NC

Ganly & Ramer, P.L.L.C. can provide the legal representation you need in the aftermath of any type of injury in a nursing home in the Asheville area. Whether you work at Mission Hospital as a nurse or another facility in the Asheville area as a certified nursing assistant, you get exposed to many injury risks daily. Some of the more common injury risks are:

• Lifting patients. Lifting patients can easily result in back injuries and other harm. It’s possible for acute injuries to occur, and it is also possible for a nursing home employee to gradually develop injuries from lifting residents every day.
• Workplace violence. Unfortunately, violence can break out in a workplace for many reasons. If you were injured by violence from a resident, coworker, or visitor, you may not only have grounds for a workers’ compensation claim but also a third-party suit against the specific party who harmed you.
• Repetitive stress on the musculoskeletal system. Nursing home employees need to perform strenuous tasks every day, and over time, these tasks can cause repetitive stress injuries. These injuries may not show any noticeable symptoms for quite some time, and it is possible for a repetitive stress injury to be highly debilitating and diminish the victim’s ability to perform their job duties.
• Slips and falls. Property owners can face liability for slips and falls that happen on their property due to their failure to address foreseeable slip and fall risks. It’s also possible for an employee in a nursing home to suffer a slip and fall due to a coworker’s failure to mark a freshly mopped floor.
• Needle sticks. Nursing home employees are exposed to many biological hazards at work, including infectious diseases and bloodborne pathogens that may be passed through used needles. Failure to properly dispose of needles in any medical setting can easily result in severe illness.

While workers’ compensation coverage is mandatory for employers in the state of North Carolina, it is known that many hospital, home health care and other caregivers with work-related injuries get denied the full coverage they deserve. Ganly & Ramer, P.L.L.C., works diligently to change that.

Our firm can help you understand the process of filing a workers’ compensation claim and the various challenges you might encounter in your efforts to secure benefits after an injury you suffered while working in a nursing home. We know how to deal with difficult employers and their insurance carriers, and our goal for every client is maximum compensation for the damages they suffered.

We Fight For You

Our law firm knows that the injury of a family’s breadwinner and the resulting lost wages can put a family’s finances in disarray, just as it devastates the ability to work and fully participate in daily life. If you are in this situation, we can zealously fight for your full rights to care and compensation.

We can also provide comprehensive legal representation for the family of an elderly nursing home patient who has been injured by the negligence or intentional misconduct of their caregivers. These are emotionally sensitive cases, and a family that has experienced such an incident is likely to have many difficult legal questions they will not be able to answer on their own.

This type of incident can form grounds for a personal injury suit against a nursing home employee and/or their employer depending on how the injury happened.

It is also possible for an injured nursing home employee to have grounds to pursue a workers’ compensation claim along with a third-party personal injury suit if a specific party is directly responsible for the harm they suffered. Ultimately, you could have more recovery options available to you than you initially realize, and our firm will do everything we can to help you maximize the results of the legal efforts you must make to recover from your injury.

Roadblocks To Safety

Injury rates in the health care industry continue to be high because safety measures often take a back seat to other budget items. For example, it is a considerable investment in equipment and training to implement a safe lifting program, an outlay of funds that a hospital is often unwilling to make in the face of other financial demands. Regrettably, many hospitals face huge expenditures to prevent infections in patients, to keep informational technology up to date, and to purchase expensive surgical devices.

Cawthorn v. Mission Hospital – 211 N.C. App. 42 — N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed an award of benefits in excess of $100,000 for a 20-year nurse plus sanctions of $30,000 against the hospital. The court held Mission had unreasonably denied and defended the claim, and it unreasonably refused to accept the opinion of its own medical staff. Ganly & Ramer subsequently achieved a settlement, and the case was the subject of a National Public Radio story in 2015 by Daniel Zwerdling regarding hospital workers’ compensation abuses.

Ganly & Ramer, P.L.L.C. have the professional resources and experience you need on your side to navigate your impending legal proceedings with confidence and peace of mind. Our team has helped injured workers in all industries explore their recovery options after injuries on the job, and we have also assisted families who have experienced abuse and injuries from negligence from nursing homes in the Asheville area.

Whatever your case requires, it is vital to consult an Asheville nursing home injury lawyer as soon as possible so they can begin building your case. You have a limited time to pursue recovery, and the sooner you connect with an attorney, the more time they have to allocate to handling your claim.

FAQs

Q: Why Do I Need to Hire an Asheville Nursing Home Injury Lawyer?

A: You need to hire an Asheville nursing home injury lawyer because you will have the greatest chance of success with your recovery efforts if you have legal counsel you can trust on your side. Your attorney can guide you through all of the proceedings you face in your efforts to recover compensation for a work-related injury in a nursing home, and they will know the regulations that apply to your specific workplace.

Q: What Benefits Can I Receive From Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

A: The benefits you could receive from workers’ compensation insurance after an injury you suffered while working in a nursing home could include medical expense coverage and disability benefits for the time you are unable to work during your recovery. While you can expect full compensation for your medical expenses, you will likely only receive a portion of your lost wages from the insurance company.

Q: Can I File a Personal Injury Claim for a Nursing Home Injury in Asheville?

A: You may have grounds to file a personal injury claim for a nursing home injury in Asheville under certain conditions. If you were injured while working, you may only have grounds to file a third-party personal injury claim if a specific party directly caused the injury in question. If a loved one was injured in a nursing home, you will need to prove the injury resulted from negligence or intentional misconduct to have grounds to file a personal injury claim.

Q: Will an Attorney Help Me Win More Compensation for a Nursing Home Injury?

A: Hiring an attorney is one of the most effective ways to increase the compensation you can obtain for a nursing home injury. Whether you are filing a workers’ compensation claim for an injury suffered while working or you are pursuing a personal injury claim in response to a loved one’s injury in a nursing home, the right attorney can significantly increase your likelihood of success with the legal efforts you attempt.

Q: How Much Does it Cost to Hire an Asheville Nursing Home Injury Lawyer?

A: The cost to hire an Asheville nursing home injury lawyer will depend on the attorney’s billing policy. When you choose Ganly & Ramer, P.L.L.C. to represent you, our fee will be a percentage of the final case award we secure on your behalf, and we will only collect this fee if and when we win your case. There are no upfront legal fees when you choose our firm to represent you in any type of nursing home injury claim.

Call Today To Find Out How Ganly & Ramer, P.L.L.C. Can Help

Our firm has extensive experience fighting for the rights of nurses and other medical professionals in the Asheville area. We can leverage that skill for you as we pursue the benefits you are due. Call us today at +1-828-844-5274 or contact us online to arrange a free initial consultation.