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Resident's daughter nets $275,000 over heat death
LTC Liability Monitor, April 27, 2006
As summer draws closer, it's important to remember just how dangerous the heat can be to your residents. A jury in St. Louis this week awarded $275,000 to the daughter of a resident who died two days after temperatures in her nursing home reached 95 degrees, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The daughter originally sought $50 million in the wrongful death suit, filed shortly after her mother, Freddie May Burns, became one of four women who died at Leland Health Care Center in University City, MO, during an April 2001 heat wave. Investigators found that the air conditioning inside Leland wasn't working at the time of the deaths. Relatives of the other three women who died had already settled with the nursing home out of court, the Post-Dispatch reported.
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