3rd Circuit: Federal Claim Under Failure-To-Train Theory Was Adequately Pleaded

Mealey's (February 28, 2018, 4:04 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 14 vacated and remanded a lower federal court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that a skilled nursing facility provided deficient care in violation of a decedent’s federal statutory rights, finding that the complaint sufficiently pleaded a U.S. Code Section 1983 claim under a failure-to-train theory of liability (Carl Louis Robinson, as executor of the estate of Georgia Anne Hope v. Fair Acres Geriatric Center, No. 16-3341, 3rd Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 3384)....

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