Nursing-Home Negligence & Wrongful Death: 70-Year-Old Christine Mitchell Suffered a Subdural Hematoma at a Nursing Home in Tucker, DeKalb County, Georgia After a Certified Nursing Assistant Rolled Her Off the Bed During an Occupied Linen Change and Died 31 Days Later — Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Hold the Facility’s Operating Company and Its Corporate Parent, We Pull the Staffing Sheets, Care Plans, MDS Assessments and Incident Reports Before They Are Revised or Purged, CMS Accident-Prevention Standards Under 42 CFR 483.25 and Georgia’s Bill of Rights for Long-Term Care Residents, Georgia Survival and Wrongful-Death Doctrine Including the Eggshell-Plaintiff Rule, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Tucker, DeKalb County, Georgia Nursing Home Negligence: When a Fall Becomes a Death The phone call comes at different hours for different families. Sometimes it is the charge nurse at 3 a.m., saying your mother fell. Sometimes it is the hospice coordinator, days later, saying she is not going to recover. Sometimes it is the funeral home, asking what you want done. And in between those calls, there is a question that keeps you awake at a kitchen table in DeKalb County: did the nursing home cause this, or did they let it happen? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle nursing home negligence and wrongful death cases in Georgia. This page exists because a DeKalb County jury sat through a trial where a 70-year-old woman was rolled off her bed during a routine linen change at a Tucker nursing home, hit her head, developed a subdural hematoma, lost the ability to speak, and died 32 days later. The jury awarded $1.8 million for what she went through before she died — and nothing for the death itself, because the defense convinced them she was already dying. That split verdict is the single most important thing to…