A senior care home in Cascade, Georgia, is facing a negligence lawsuit for the death of residents of the facility from COVID-19. On Thursday, April 23rd, five families of the victims announced they are filing a lawsuit against Arbor Terrace, a branch of the Atlanta-based Arbor Company.
The families who filed the lawsuit said that their relatives contacted COVID-19 while living in the care home due to the staff’s inability to provide proper care. Rod Edmond, the attorney whose firm is representing the would-be plaintiffs, said that they paid Arbor Terrace to provide security and protection for the victims.
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The legal practitioner added that the protection was not provided, and the care home failed the victims. Edmond hopes that despite the state of Georgia limiting the liabilities of medical personnel during the pandemic, they would be able to prove that Arbor Terrace acted to a degree of gross negligence.
The plaintiffs are filing the lawsuit in Fulton County State Court in hopes that the action would go to trial. Bill Mann, a man whose mother, Ernestine, Mann, 84, died in the care home said he saw the signs of negligence when he visited in late March and found a staff without gloves and a face mask.
Family members of Eddie and Blanche Johnson Jr., a couple who also passed away, said Arbor Terrace, did not warn residents of the outbreak in time. Other families represented are related to the victims, Catherine Hendrix, 80, and Dorothy McGirt, 92.
The care home, so far, has recorded 52 positive COVID-19 cases with 15 deaths. The parent company has not responded to the lawsuit, but it released a statement sympathizing with the families of those who died. They would need to hire a negligence lawyer as they tackle the negligence lawsuit.
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