Posts by Jacques Balette
SEXUAL ASSAULT REPORT The Dorothy System: Tracking Nursing Home Staff Who Abuse Patients
On April 14, 1998, Texas Health Enterprises. Texas largest nursing home operator, agreed to pay $4.65 million to the estate of a partially paralyzed woman who was sexually abused repeatedly by a male nurse’s aide. This was reached days after the company was found grossly negligent and ordered to pay the woman’s estate $2.75 million…
Read MoreNeglect and Fraud in Nursing Home Lead to $83 Million Verdict
LawyersUSA lawyersusaonline.com (January 12, 1998) Amy Johnson – Contributing writer Verdict: $83 million total State: Texas Type of case: Personal injury Trial: Deliberations: Status: Judge reduced to $54.6 million on Dec. 8 Case name: Waites v. Beverly Enterprises, et al Date of verdict: Nov. 18th Plaintiffs’ attorneys: David Marks, The Marks Firm, Houston; sole partner…
Read MoreNursing Home Loses $83 M For Wrongful Death, Fraud
RUTH WAITES was 83 years old when she began living at the Borger Nursing Center, in Borger, Texas, in 1993. At the time, said plaintiffs counsel David T. Marks, Ms. Waites was mentally alert, but largely unable to walk and a diabetic. While at the Borger home, he said, Ms. Waites became severely dehydrated and…
Read MoreLegislative Committee on Human Services
Legislative Committee on Human Services August 21, 1996 Testimony of David Marks Introduction by Representative Hilderbran: Next is David Marks. He is an attorney from Houston who has worked extensively on these issues and is going to advise the Committee on some ideas that he has for us. I might say that David also has…
Read MoreTexas Nursing Home Deaths Coming to Trial After Six Years
GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 8 (AP)-Six years after a young prosecutor ran across a neglected file of reports alleging that elderly nursing home patients had died of abuse and neglect, a convalescent home chain and several employees are going on trial Monday. Along the way, the case has been before three grand juries, cost the young…
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