HUNTINGTON — An estate executor is suing a nursing home facility operator, citing alleged negligence and reckless misconduct.
Stephen M. Morrison, executor of the estate of Cherie Morrison, filed a complaint in Cabell Circuit Court against Seventeenth Street Associates LLC alleging infringement of nursing home residents' rights.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that during Cherie Morrison's residency at defendants' facility beginning in Sept. 21, 2017, she suffered a fall that led to the development and progressive deterioration of pressure related injury, urinary tract infection, weight loss and dehydration. She suffered pain, mental anguish, aggravation of existing diseases and physical defects, all contributing to her death on Jan. 3, 2018. The plaintiff holds Seventeenth Street Associates responsible because the defendants allegedly failed to provide adequate supervision and assistance, failed to provide health care services in compliance with the federal and state rules and regulations and failed to provide an environment free of hazards and accidents.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks all damages, attorney's fees, costs and all other items that the court sees fit to award. He is represented by Jeff D. Stewart, Andrew L. Paternostro and S. Andrew Stonestreet of Stewart Bell in Charleston.
Cabel Circuit Court Case number 18-C-574