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Article: Legal Review & Commentary: Swarm of fire ants attacks nursing home patient resident: $5.35 million Alabama verdict.
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- Healthcare Risk Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Legal Review & Commentary: Swarm of fire ants attacks nursing home patient resident: $5.35 million Alabama verdict
By Edward J. Carbone, Esq., Jan J. Gorrie, Esq., and Richard Oliver, Esq.
Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp.
Tampa, FL
News: One summer evening, fire ants attacked a 79-year-old nursing home patient resident as she lay in her bed. The next day, the patients daughter took her to a regularly scheduled doctors appointment outside of the facility, and the physician aggressively treated her for multiple bites. The fire ants attacked again that night and the patient was severely bitten. Because of the severe bites, she ...