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Long Term Care

Steptoe & Johnson's Long Term Care Team includes attorneys, legal assistants, and nurses from the firm's litigation, business, and labor groups, offices located throughout West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Group lawyers offer services in general litigation defense, both standard of care and general negligence; labor and employment representation, including wrongful termination, counseling, and workers' compensation; and regulatory compliance, including assistance with development of plans of correction. The group represents numerous national long term care providers in this litigation-intensive health care field.

Representative Experience

  • Assisted in the sale of assets of a substantial independent and assisted living facility and related nursing home, and that necessitated the defeasance of publicly held tax-exempt indebtedness
  • Represented a national nursing home chain at trial in a wrongful death action involving death of resident from urosepsis. Punitive damages sought for alleged understaffing, false documentation and other issues.
  • Trial counsel to national nursing home chain in contested proceeding to obtain administrative approval of sale of private equity; favorable decision helped allow transaction to close
  • Defended multiple long term care facilities in claims involving medical negligence (including wound development, infection, falls, understaffing and malnutrition) and punitive conduct
  • Represented a national nursing home chain at trial in a wrongful death action involving a 38-year old individual suffering from multiple sclerosis. Punitive damages were sought based on alleged understaffing and other issues.
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To help prevent unnecessary litigation, Steptoe & Johnson provides continuing education credits for RNs, LPNs, and administrators, focusing on reducing claims through defensive charting and risk management.  The group's lawyers are active with and support the interests of clients in the West Virginia and Ohio health care associations.

 

In-depth knowledge of the long term care industry and the geographic reach of the Long Term Care Team allow lawyers to provide effective, cost-efficient representation to clients throughout the region.  

 

The Long Term Care Team is committed to a coordinated approach to the defense of clients where litigation, labor and employment, and business attorneys partner with clients for a full-service, team approach to representation. 

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Areas of Concentration


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