Magistrate Judge Recommends Allowing Punitive Damages Claim Against Nursing Home

(April 16, 2018, 11:15 AM EDT) -- SCRANTON, Pa. — The administratrix of the estate of a woman who developed bedsores shortly after being admitted into an elder care facility should be allowed to pursue a claim for punitive damages as part of her wrongful death suit, a federal magistrate judge in Pennsylvania ruled April 9, finding that the complaint sufficiently alleges that the facility had previously been cited for regulatory violations and that it altered medical records after the woman’s death (Terri Allfrey v. GGNESC East Stroudsburg LP, et al., No. 17-CV-2200, M.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60695)....