Verdict in case where resident fell out of 2nd story window
TriState.com wrote a brief summary of the verdict in a recent nursing home trial. The family of a woman, Tong Ashby, who survived a two-story fall out of an Evansville nursing home window has been compensated. The accident happened six years ago at Golden Living Center Woodbridge.
At the time, Mrs. Ashby was only 57 years old and a cognitively impaired woman. She tried to leave the home to be with her family. While doors and elevators were kept locked at the facility, the windows in her room were kept open. She says one day a staff member left Ashby alone and she climbed out the window falling thirty feet. She had a history of wandering and trying to go home. Ashby survived the fall and now lives with her son in Lexington, Kentucky. The verdict awarded her more than $250,000.
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