First a Long Island nursing home killed an elderly man — and now it’s suing his family over his outstanding bill. A jury awarded $1…
First a Long Island nursing home killed an elderly man — and now it’s suing his family over his outstanding bill.
A jury awarded $1 million to the family of ailing wheelchair-bound Salvatore Niosi because a nurse at the Woodhaven Care Center forgot to put in his dentures and fed him a sandwich, leading him to choke to death.
“Suffocating to death, even if for a short period of time, is a terrible way to die,” said Clifford Argintar, the lawyer for the family of the 82-year-old grandpa.
But the nursing home is still counter-suing Niosi’s kin, claiming the family owes it money over his stay there, thanks to an alleged clerical error with his Medicaid application.
