Nursing Homes Sue Family and Friends

29 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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In this video, the speaker reveals that many nursing homes routinely file lawsuits against residents' family members or friends to collect unpaid bills. He explains that these suits often allege that the relatives are hiding assets, and that signing as a "responsible party" on admission paperwork can unintentionally make the signer liable for the resident's charges. Although federal law prohibits nursing homes from requiring a friend or family member to assume financial responsibility, the speaker notes that attorneys frequently encounter such cases and that judgments are often obtained because defendants fail to respond. When the lawsuits are contested, they are commonly dropped. The speaker urges viewers to read all documents carefully and to be aware of their rights.

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Falling squarely into the category of what the hell do they think they're doing, I found out today that nursing homes are regularly suing residents' family and friends for unpaid bills. Many of these cases accuse the resident's family or friends of hiding assets so the nursing home would not find out about them. Other lawsuits have involved situations where a family or a friend helped sign the resident into the nursing home. If you've done that, you know that the nursing home asks you to sign documents as a responsible party. Apparently in some nursing homes, those documents also indicate that the signing party is also responsible for the bill. Read what you sign. These people are typically told you must sign, and in fact, there's federal law that says a nursing home cannot require a friend or family member to be responsible for the bill. Attorneys in these states say that they regularly see lawsuits against family and friends. It's not uncommon for the nursing homes to get judgments against people for these things because people often don't respond to the lawsuit. Where people fight it, these cases are often dropped. So govern yourselves accordingly, people, and follow me.