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Nursing home owners file civil suit
LTC Liability Monitor, September 6, 2006
Two New Orleans nursing home owners filed a civil lawsuit against federal, state, and local government officials for failing to evacuate vulnerable citizens during Hurricane Katrina last year. The owners filed suit in response to their arrest last fall in the deaths of 34 of their residents following the deadly storm, reported the Associated Press (AP). Louisiana's attorney general had the owners booked for negligent homicide last fall after investigating the deaths at the facility, but they've not been formally charged by a grand jury. The owners' attorney said in the new suit that any liability in the deaths should be shared by governing agencies that failed to make appropriate evacuation preparations before the storm, according to the AP.
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