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Appeals court hears challenge to dismissal of administrator and management-company claims in nursing‑home death suit
Summary
The Appeals Court heard arguments over whether a complaint alleging understaffing, training and supervision failures states a plausible negligence claim against a nursing‑home administrator and a management company after a resident’s fatal choking.
The Appeals Court heard argument in a complex wrongful-death and medical-negligence appeal involving a deceased resident at a facility identified in the transcript as Sunbridge Healthcare. The plaintiff challenged the trial court’s dismissal of claims against the nursing-home administrator and a separate management company, arguing those defendants had statutory and common‑law duties that were pleaded with sufficient factual detail.
Plaintiff counsel acknowledged the jury had already returned a verdict finding no negligence as to the direct-care staff who were…
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