Orlando Nursing Home Fall Attorneys
If your parent or loved one fell in an Orlando-area nursing home or assisted living facility, our nursing home fall attorneys find out whether staff ignored the care plan, cut corners on supervision or understaffed the unit — and hold the facility accountable. No fee unless we win. Call (407) 777-8888
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What's at Stake
We're so sorry your family is going through this. Facilities know which residents are at high risk of falling. After a fall, they often blame age or frailty. Here's what's at stake.
For an older adult, a hip fracture or head injury can lead to surgery, immobility, pneumonia and a lasting loss of independence.
Incident reports, care plans and staffing records can be amended after the fact, and hallway video is often overwritten within days.
If the conditions that caused the first fall don't change, a second fall is more likely — and often worse.
Florida generally gives you two years from the fall or its discovery, and a 75-day presuit process must come first.
Your loved one shouldn't have to fight this alone.
Alexandra Tosado · Founding Attorney
A fall in a nursing home is rarely just bad luck. We find out what the facility knew and what it failed to do.
Most Falls Are Preventable
Every nursing home resident is supposed to have a comprehensive assessment and an individualized care plan, and facilities must provide the supervision and assistive devices needed to prevent accidents. For a resident at risk of falling, that plan might call for bed or chair alarms, a low bed and floor mats, two-person transfers, scheduled toileting, non-slip footwear or closer supervision.
When staff skip those steps — or when the unit is too understaffed to follow them — falls happen. The facility and its insurer will then argue the fall was unavoidable. Proving otherwise means comparing the care plan to what actually happened, minute by minute, using the facility's own records.
Our Orlando nursing home fall lawyers do exactly that. As part of our nursing home abuse and neglect practice, we preserve the evidence, work with geriatric care experts, handle Florida's presuit requirements and prepare your loved one's case for a jury.
Common Fall Injuries
Falls during unassisted transfers, out of bed without an alarm, on the way to the bathroom or while wandering from a memory care unit cause these injuries most often.
Step-by-Step
What you do in the days after a fall protects your loved one's health and the evidence of what went wrong.
Did your loved one fall?
Ask for the incident report and photograph the room. Then talk to an attorney before you sign anything from the facility. It's free.
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We Try Cases
Facility insurers decide early whether a family will settle cheap. Here's what happens when an insurer guesses wrong about a case that's ready for trial.
“A very positive experience with the attorney and her entire team — always attentive, kind, and willing to clarify every question. The fact that they are bilingual is a huge plus.”
Landmark verdict
40×
The jury's verdict was forty times the insurance company's offer.
Their offer
$30,000
The jury's verdict
$1.2M
The insurance company offered our client $30,000. We turned it down, built the case for trial and put it in front of a jury. The jury awarded $1.2 million — forty times what the insurer said the case was worth.
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Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case is different and is evaluated on its own facts. Amounts are gross recoveries before fees, costs and liens.
The Plan
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We investigate, gather the evidence, handle the insurance company and get your medical care documented.
We negotiate from strength. If they won't pay fairly, we take it to a jury.
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Most preventable falls happen because the facility didn't follow its own plan. Here's how we prove it.
Compensation
A preventable fall can change the rest of a resident's life. Florida law allows recovery for the full harm, and for the family's losses when a fall is fatal.
Emergency care, hip and orthopedic surgery, ICU stays and follow-up procedures.
Inpatient rehab, physical and occupational therapy, and the long road back to mobility.
Medication, equipment, in-home or added care and monitoring after a fall that changes everything.
The pain of fractures and surgery, fear of falling again and the loss of dignity.
When a fall ends a resident's ability to walk or care for themselves.
Moving your loved one to a safer facility, including any difference in monthly cost.
Funeral and medical costs, loss of companionship and the family's mental pain and suffering.
Where a court finds a basis for gross negligence, such as falsified records, Florida law may allow damages meant to punish.
Not sure what your case is worth? We'll tell you, free.
Get My Free Case ReviewFlorida Law
Federal care standards and Florida's nursing home statutes set what facilities must do to prevent falls — and how families enforce those rules.
The duty to prevent falls. Federal rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes require a comprehensive assessment and individualized care plan for every resident, and adequate supervision and assistance devices to prevent accidents. Facilities are expected to reassess after a fall or a change in condition. When a facility doesn't follow its own care plan, that's strong evidence of negligence.
Residents' rights and the right to sue. Florida's § 400.022 guarantees residents adequate and appropriate health care, and § 400.023 lets a resident — or a guardian or the personal representative of the estate — bring a claim when negligence or a rights violation causes harm.
Staffing. Florida sets minimum direct-care staffing standards for nursing homes in § 400.23. We compare daily staffing records to those standards and to what your loved one's care plan required.
Presuit notice. Before a lawsuit, the facility must be served with a notice of intent by certified mail, which starts a 75-day presuit period. The statute of limitations is paused during that time.
Assisted living. Falls in assisted living facilities fall under Chapter 429, which has its own residents' rights and remedies. We handle both. AHCA inspection reports for Florida facilities are public and often show a pattern of fall-related deficiencies.
What Success Looks Like
Facing it alone
With ANT in your corner
Treatment, rehab and a safer place to live.
The care plan, staffing and records brought into the open.
Medical care, rehab and relocation paid by those responsible.
The facility held responsible, in front of a jury if needed.
Every case is different. Past results don't guarantee a similar outcome.
Client Reviews
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Why ANT Law Firm
After a nursing home fall, the facility and its insurer will call it unavoidable. We use the facility's own records to show what went wrong, prepare every case for trial — and you pay nothing unless we win.
Straight Answers
When the fall was preventable and the facility didn't meet the standard of care. Common examples: no fall risk assessment on admission, a care plan that wasn't updated after a change in condition or a prior fall, a care plan that wasn't followed (alarms off, missed toileting rounds, unassisted transfers), understaffing that made supervision impossible, known hazards left in place, and safety equipment removed or misused. Not every fall is the facility's fault, but many serious falls are the result of preventable neglect.
Hip fractures are the most common serious injury and are especially dangerous for older adults. Others include traumatic brain injuries (particularly for residents on blood thinners), spinal fractures, wrist and shoulder fractures, head lacerations and internal bleeding. Even a fall without a major injury can start a decline — less mobility, fear of falling, depression and more falls.
It depends on the injury, the medical care and rehab required, the resident's condition before the fall, the strength of the evidence and whether punitive damages may be available. Fatal falls are valued under Florida's wrongful death rules. We'll review the records and give you an honest assessment in your free case review. Be wary of anyone who quotes a number before seeing the chart.
The fall risk assessment and care plan, and any updates after earlier falls; medication records (many fall risks involve sedating medications); incident reports for this fall and prior falls; staffing schedules and census sheets; video from common areas; AHCA inspection reports and complaints; statements from family, residents and former staff; and the facility's own fall-prevention policies. Facilities investigate falls internally, and those investigations can be revealing. We send preservation requests early.
Yes. Understaffing is one of the most common and most provable causes of nursing home falls. We obtain staffing logs and compare them to Florida's minimum staffing standards under § 400.23 and to what your loved one's care plan required, such as two-person transfers or frequent checks. When there weren't enough staff to provide the care the resident needed, that is strong evidence for a jury.
It may not end the case. Federal rules bar Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes from making arbitration a condition of admission, and agreements can be challenged when a family member without legal authority signed, when the terms are unconscionable or when the paperwork wasn't properly explained. Our attorneys fight to keep cases in court, where a jury decides.
Under § 400.0236, generally two years from the fall or from when the negligence was or should have been discovered, and in most cases no more than four years from the incident, with limited exceptions for fraud or concealment. Wrongful death claims have two years from the date of death. Florida's 75-day presuit process must happen before suit is filed, so contact our Orlando nursing home fall attorneys at (407) 777-8888 as soon as possible.
Make sure they get proper medical care first — head injuries in residents on blood thinners can worsen quickly. Photograph the injuries, the location and any missing equipment or hazards. Request the incident report, fall investigation and care plan in writing. Keep a log of what staff tell you, and don't sign anything from the facility without legal review. Then call our Orlando nursing home fall attorneys at (407) 777-8888 for a free, confidential consultation.
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Orlando Nursing Home Fall Attorneys
Tell us what happened. We'll preserve the records, deal with the facility and its insurer, and build the case for trial. Your free, confidential case review takes a few minutes, in English or Spanish.
