$6,000,000 – Verdict for Serious Fall Leading to Death in an Iowa Nursing Home

An 83-year-old woman died after suffering a serious fall at Buffalo Center’s Timely Mission Nursing Home. During the fall, the resident fractured her hip and shoulder, and ultimately it resulted in her untimely death. The jury awarded the woman’s family $2 million for pain and suffering, $2 million for punitive damages, $1 million for loss of companionship and comfort, and $1 million for loss of function in mind and body.