Nursing Home Chain Ordered To Pay $28M in Abuse Case
Last week, a Sacramento Superior Court jury ordered nursing home chain Horizon West Healthcare to pay $28 million in punitive damages after the jury found HWH's Colonial Healthcare of Auburn guilty of elder abuse in the death of a female patient. The jury previously ordered HWH to pay $1.1 million in compensatory damages for the woman's death.
- "Jury Orders Auburn Nursing Home Company To Pay $28 Million in Death" (Hubert, Sacramento Bee, 5/14).