ARKANSAS: Arkansas lawyer Brian Reddick has found a lucrative niche as America ages: suing big nursing-home chains.
Mr. Reddick and other alumni of a Florida law firm that pioneered the approach have taken those tactics on the road.
They are filing neglect and abuse cases in places like Pennsylvania, where the country’s fourth-largest concentration of residents aged 85 and older has spurred a litigation boom aimed largely at for-profit nursing-home operators.
The lawsuits typically allege that patients were harmed not just by neglect or medical errors but because the corporate owners skimp on patient care to boost profits – what Mr. Reddick, a former litigator for a large nursing-home chain, calls “putting revenue over residents.”
Two decades after its start in Florida, the legal strategy has moved into tort-friendly states and now he’s looking to introduce the technique globally…