Assisted Living Facility / Catastrophic Lower Extremity Injuries
Secured a $1 million premises liability policy limit settlement against an assisted living facility after a client fell while attempting to board a transportation shuttle. The client suffered catastrophic injuries to her lower extremities, and the defendant failed to maintain proper procedures for loading and unloading passengers.
Assisted living defendants usually frame a shuttle fall as a routine transfer accident or an unavoidable mobility issue. The real question is whether staff had safe loading rules and followed them.
When lower extremity injuries are catastrophic, the defense often disputes how much help the resident needed and whether the facility had enough warning. Those arguments fail when the case ties the injury to missing procedures, poor training, or a rushed transfer.
Knowing the defense playbook matters because these facilities and their insurers study every chart note. The case has to show both the human harm and the system failure that allowed it to happen.
This case involved an assisted living transportation fall. If you were injured in an assisted living transportation fall in Los Angeles, our attorneys know how the other side builds its defense because we used to be on it.
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