ELDER CARE DISPUTE RESOLUTION EXPERIENCE

Mr. Polsky has extensive experience in the area of medical malpractice claims, including claims involving care given to persons in specialty facilities. His articles on the subject have been published in Bar journals and legal newspapers. (See "Professional Liability" biography.)

REPRESENTATIVE ELDER CARE CASES HANDLED BY MR. POLSKY

• Person in long-term care facility fell from bed post-surgery resulting in hip replacement. Allegations of failure to provide adequate nursing care and lack of bed rails. Patient had a history of falling from bed which resulted in the first surgery. (Settlement $150 k)
• Failure to provide adequate care resulting in walk away of elderly mental patient and subsequent accident causing severe orthopedic injury. (Settlement $250 k)
• Alzheimer patient wandered away from convalescent hospital. Police found her and took her to a medical center where she came under the care of an assigned physician. Following tests she was taken to a care center for the elderly. She developed ulcerations to her buttocks, pneumonia, sepsis, decubitus ulcers and dehydration. She was transferred back to the hospital where she died. Elder abuse, medical malpractice and punitive damage claims asserted against hospital and facility by the estate. (Settled)

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

Mr. Polsky is a sought after negotiation skills trainer and has lectured throughout the United States. He is an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School, where he teaches a course he designed on ADR and negotiation, and at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he teaches courses on mediation and arbitration in the LLM program. He has resolved thousands of complex commercial and serious injury disputes and was named one of the top 20 mediators and arbitrators in California by the Daily Journal. Local bar association annual reviews consistently give Mr. Polsky high marks for fairness as an arbitrator and tenacity and commitment as a mediator.