Obtaining all the regulations and statutes.

Elder abuse investigation begins with plaintiff attorney obtaining all of the potential regulations and statutes that govern nursing homes and other people who care for elders and dependent adults. There are many regulations and they all should be studied to find which ones apply to the subject case.

Investigate the history of the facility.

Plaintiff attorney should be able to obtain a history of prior cases against the facility and prior violations and citations against the facility. If the problems cited in the cases or violations and citations have not been corrected, this will create powerful evidence for victory and punitive damages.

Obtaining the testimony of witnesses.

Investigation of elder abuse cases is made easy by the fact that even current employees of nursing homes are normally extraordinarily unhappy and will often times cooperate with a plaintiff, at the risk of losing their job which they don't really care about.

Secondly, there is almost always such a high turnover that if plaintiff attorney can obtain the names of staff members over a given period of time, many of those staff members will be gone and, if they can be found, will provide testimony which may help win an elder abuse case.

Finally, when possible, current or former patients should be interviewed to provide similar information.

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