Home Health & Hospice Week
Texas HHA Faces Suit Over Murdered Family Member
Your policies on checking out your workers before hiring them may save you in a negligent hiring lawsuit.
Case in point: Girling Home Health in Dallas (owned by industry giant Gentiva Health-care Services Inc.) faces just such a lawsuit after a patient’s relative was allegedly shot by a Girling caregiver’s boyfriend last December.
Russell Martens, then 47, died in the house of his uncle Pete Dobbins. He’d been shot twice in an apparent home burglary, says KXAN News. Martens had come to help his bed-ridden uncle move back to Alabama with him after Dobbins told Martens he was no longer happy with the care Girling was providing.
A lawsuit filed by Martens’ widow alleges the Girling caregiver had been inviting her boy-friend to visit Dobbins’ house and that the couple had been stealing the infirm man’s food, the news station reports. The boyfriend is one of three men in jail facing capital murder charge in Martens’ death.
Girling says the caregiver was fired after a complaint and investigation, according to KXAN.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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