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Nursing
Home Litigation: Pretrial Practice and Trials, Second Edition
Edited by Ruben J. Krisztal,
Esq.
6" x 9", casebound,
656 pages
2003, Lawyers
and Judges
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Contributing authors: Stephen
Appelbaum, C.E.P., E.P.I.C., Julie Braun, J.D., LL.M., Elizabeth
Capezuti, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., T. Patrick Ford, Jr., Allen Fuller,
Benjamin Glass, Patricia
Iyer, M.S.N., R.N., L.N.C.C., William T. Lawson,
III, Esq., M. Elizabeth Lanier, J. Roslyn Lemmon, Jeffrey M. Levine,
M.D., J. Pamela J. Lormand, Janet Mckee, J. Scott Myers, Esq.,
John M. Parisi, Esq., John Petrullo, Roger Rider, Esq., Briana
Rivera, Esq., Beth Rom-Rymer, Ph.D., F.P.P.R., Thomas Rockwell
and Gerald B. Taylor
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Attorney Krisztal's companion volume
to Nursing Home Litigation:
Investigation and Case Preparation is a must-have
reference for any professional involved in nursing home cases.
New
topics include:
Handling older witnesses: the defense perspective
Preparing nursing home staff for deposition
The preparation and use of demonstrative evidence
Fighting fraud in long-term care
Voir dire, opening arguments and closing arguments
Punitive damages
The role of nutrition
The Medicare "super lien"
CD-ROM of actual depositions of nurses, administrators, directors
of nursing and upper management in nursing homes
Other topics covered:
The demand letter
Discovery motions
Working with expert witnesses
Settlement strategies
Demonstrating trauma: effects of sexual abuse on the elderly
Detailed
Table of Contents
Review (of the
first edition) by JesĪs G.Q. Garza:
This book is the companion
volume to Nursing Home Litigation:
Investigation and Case Preparation. The editor and contributing
author of this book, Ruben Krisztal, is an attorney with more
than 16 years of experience in litigating nursing home cases.
Equally telling, however, is the range and depth of experience
of the other 16 contributing authors--not all of whom are lawyers.
It is this collection of experience that gives this book its strength.
Written for the practicing attorney, this book taps into the vast
pool of know-how from nationally known coauthors who are well-versed
and well-tested in the finer points of litigating a nursing home
case.
The book is arranged logically and sequentially, beginning with
the demand letter and going all the way to a discussion on settlement
strategies. This aspect gives the relatively new nursing home
litigator a practical step-by-step process to follow. The book
also has enough substance to assist seasoned trial attorneys.
Certain chapters provide a nice refresher on basic litigation
techniques and address specifics on dealing with the elderly.
Some chapters have stand-alone "tips" segments that
provide important information that even veteran attorneys can
easily overlook. One such tip in the chapter on handling older
witnesses gives a list of "Do's and don'ts of communicating
with a hearing impaired older witness." These tips are helpful,
if not for their direct usefulness, then for the way they can
help the reader better understand the complexities of dealing
with nursing home cases. Unfortunately, not all chapters have
these tips, but this is only a minor deficiency.
Other chapters provide significant and substantive treatment to
issues of which all nursing home litigators should take notice.
For example, 50 pages are devoted to the chapter on preparing
and using demonstrative evidence. This book is an excellent reference
for attorneys currently involved in litigating nursing home cases.
It is a "must-have" for attorneys new to nursing home
litigation or litigation involving other adult assisted living
facilities.
Copyright Š 2002 by State Bar of Wisconsin; Jesus G.Q. Garza
JESUS G.Q. GARZA, U.W. 1996, IS AN ATTORNEY IN THE OFFICE OF LEGAL
COUNSEL AT THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
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