Rebecca Riddick, Daily Business Review, Law.com 3/20/07 Reports on End-Of-Life Care and Instructions
March 22, 2007 18:26

Fla. Nursing Home Faulted for Ignoring End-of-Life Wishes: "A West Palm Beach, Fla., nursing home was held liable by a Palm Beach Circuit Court jury on Friday for failing to ensure that a resident's end-of-life wishes as outlined in a living will were fulfilled by her caregivers. A nine-member jury awarded the estate of Madeline Neumann $150,000 for damages incurred when the 92-year-old was transported to a hospital and forcefully intubated against the will's directives. Neumann died in 1995, six days after she arrived at the hospital."