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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
Price:
$119.00
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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
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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