BOSTON: Five board members who oversaw the downfall of a skilled nursing home have beaten a personal damages claim.
The original hearing upheld the jury’s finding of liability against the board members and administrators as well as the punitive damages leveled against its chief executive officer and chief financial officer. But a judge has since ruled that there was “Insufficient evidence presented to support a finding that any of them possessed a sufficiently culpable state of mind to warrant the imposition of the ‘extreme remedy’ of punitive damages.”
This is the third time the case has been up for review.
“The evidence presented to the jury did not contain the minimum quantum of proof of outrageous conduct necessary to support a punitive damages award against any of the director defendants,” said the judge…