California Thousand Oaks Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer

Your instincts led you here. If something is bothering you and your family about the level of care your loved one is receiving in a Thousand Oaks nursing home, we want to hear about it. Call (888) 887-9777 for a free consultation with our nationally recognized nursing home abuse attorneys.

Cases We Handle

Nursing Home Infections, Falls & Fractures, Unexplained Broken Bones, Bedsores/Pressure Sores, Sepsis, Medication Errors/Overmedication, Unauthorized Use of Restraints, Wheelchair Transfer Injuries, Elderly Wandering & Elopement, Elderly Sexual Assault & Abuse, Dehydration & Malnutrition, Poor Hygiene, Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Amputation, Choking Deaths, Wrongful Death, Financial Elder Abuse, and more.

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We have extensive experience suing the following facilities: Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Memory Care Facilities, Adult Day Care Centers, and more.

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A missed meal. A bruise with no explanation. Phone calls that never get returned. These are the things that bring families to Lanzone Morgan, LLP, and we take each and every one seriously. If something about your loved one’s care doesn’t feel right, we urge you to reach out and join us in our continued fight for justice.

Table of Contents:

The Reality of Nursing Home Abuse in Ventura County
Why Thousand Oaks Families Trust Lanzone Morgan, LLP
Case Study: What Compensation Can Your Family Recover?
Our Recent Case Results
How Lanzone Morgan Has Changed California Elder Abuse Law
Recent Care Deficiencies at Thousand Oaks Nursing Facilities
Thousand Oaks Nursing Home Residents Have Rights
What To Do If You Suspect Nursing Home Abuse
Frequently Asked Questions
Meet Our Attorneys

Why Thousand Oaks Families Trust Lanzone Morgan

Most of the people who call us are not the residents themselves. They are daughters and sons, spouses and siblings, people who placed someone they love in a care facility and are now fighting to find out what happened to them. If that is you, you have come to the right place.

Elder abuse is not one of the many areas of law we practice. It is the only one we practice. With over 75 years of combined experience, Lanzone Morgan, LLP, has recovered more than $250 million for victims of nursing home abuse and neglect across California. We are recognized as one of the leading elder abuse law firms in the United States, and long-term care facilities know our firm by name.

Founding partners James Morgan and Anthony Lanzone built their firm around the belief that there is no greater cause for a lawyer than fighting for a vulnerable person who cannot fight for themselves. Your loved one deserves justice even if the abuse or neglect only happened once. There is absolutely no minimum level of harm or occurrence before a case matters to us.

"There has been no greater reward than serving as a nursing home abuse attorney, being the voice and advocate for the thousands of clients I have represented over the many years of practice, and holding the perpetrators accountable. Vulnerable victims are often cast aside by society. There is no greater cause as a lawyer than fighting for them."

Anthony Lanzone, Founding Partner

What Compensation Can Your Family Recover?

Victims of nursing home abuse and neglect in Thousand Oaks may be entitled to substantial compensation. Our attorneys pursue every available category of damages on your behalf.

Personal Injury Damages

Compensation can include past and future medical expenses for nursing home abuse injuries caused by the abuse or neglect, the cost of relocating your loved one to a safer facility, physical pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of dignity, and loss of the enjoyment of life.

Wrongful Death Damages

If your loved one lost their life as a result of nursing home abuse or neglect, your family may be entitled to wrongful death damages, which often cover funeral and burial expenses, loss of companionship, and the pain and suffering your loved one experienced before death.

Punitive Damages

When a court finds that a nursing home acted with malice, oppression, or fraud, the jury may award punitive damages, which are intended to punish the facility and deter future misconduct. In Lanzone Morgan’s $7.6 million verdict for the family of an Air Force veteran, the jury awarded punitive damages and found the facility liable for over 1,400 separate violations of the California Nursing Home Residents’ Bill of Rights.

Our Thousand Oaks nursing home injury attorneys helped the family get answers, accountability, and compensation.

Our Recent Case Results

$7.6 million verdict for the family of a 71-year-old Air Force veteran who suffered severe neglect, including missed cancer treatments and an advanced and severely infected pressure wound. This was recognized as the 2025 Top Verdict in California.
$4.5 million for the daughters of an elderly woman who died from extreme neglect at a residential care facility.
$3 million settlement for a dependent adult who developed an infected bedsore at a skilled nursing facility.
$2.34 million verdict for an 84-year-old woman who suffered ten falls, and both a fractured shoulder and pelvis from chronic neglect at a Los Angeles nursing home. This was recognized as the 2024 Top Verdict in California.
$1 million settlement for an elderly victim who caught on fire at a nursing home while unsupervised.

These results reflect what skilled, committed, and unrelenting advocacy can accomplish. You pay nothing up front when you hire Lanzone Morgan, LLP. We advance all necessary costs to thoroughly investigate and litigate the case, and collect fees only from the compensation we recover. If we do not win, you pay nothing.

How Lanzone Morgan Has Changed California Elder Abuse Law

Lanzone Morgan, LLP, does more than win individual cases. The firm’s litigation has established precedents that protect nursing home residents throughout California, regardless of whether they were ever our clients.

In one of the most significant victories in California elder abuse legal history, Lanzone Morgan, LLP, prevailed before the Supreme Court of California on a landmark arbitration ruling. The case involved a nursing home that buried a mandatory arbitration clause in the admission paperwork and then used a healthcare power of attorney to push the victim’s claims entirely out of court and into a private arbitration process.

The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the victim and held that a durable healthcare power of attorney does not authorize an agent to waive an elderly adult’s right to a jury trial. That ruling protects every nursing home resident in California who faces this tactic.

Our legal team has also won multiple appellate court decisions that have shaped elder abuse law statewide. Nursing home facilities that once used arbitration clauses and legal maneuvering to silence families now know those tactics have limits, and Lanzone Morgan, LLP, is the reason why.

What Does This Mean for You?

When you hire Lanzone Morgan, LLP, you are not simply hiring a legal team that knows elder abuse law—you are hiring the attorneys who wrote chapters of it. Nursing homes and their defense attorneys know us by name, and that recognition carries significant weight long before a case ever reaches a courtroom.

Care facilities are less likely to stonewall, delay, or rely on legal tricks when they know who they are up against. This translates into stronger leverage during negotiations and a more level playing field at trial. You have hired attorneys who have already defeated the same tactics the defense team might try to use against your family.

In a legal battle where experience and reputation can ultimately determine how far a nursing home corporation is willing to push back, having Lanzone Morgan, LLP, on your side is an incredible advantage from day one.

“After learning about my late dad’s bedsores that had been neglected, which had reached a stage 4 pressure ulcer and had not been reported to the family, my wife researched bedsores and stumbled upon Lanzone Morgan, LLP. We were blessed to have Lanzone Morgan, LLP take on the case and have Ayman Mourad and Elizabeth Kim be our attorneys to represent us. Ayman Mourad and Elizabeth Kim's compassionate, caring, and very considerate approach has been comforting, knowing the fact that we were in good hands. Their amazing focus on the case was thorough and completely detailed. They provided strong evidence that won the case. We can't thank them enough!”

James D.

“When my grandmother suffered a stage 4 bedsore in a nursing home, I was overwhelmed and didn’t know what to do. From the moment I spoke with Jim Morgan, I felt like we finally had someone on our side who truly cared. Jim took the time to explain everything clearly and patiently, making sure I understood each step of the process. He was always available to answer my questions and gave me the confidence to keep moving forward, even when things felt heavy. He treated my family compassionately, and I never once felt like just another case on his desk. Thanks to Jim, we not only received a substantial settlement but also got my grandmother placed in a much better facility, where she’s finally receiving the care she deserves.”

Kira

“What a great experience using Lanzone Morgan, LLP. The team was super patient and very knowledgeable. They took the time to walk me through the process and made me feel comfortable at all steps. Lanzone Morgan, LLP, was recommended by another attorney to me because of how successful they were with elder abuse by a nursing home. Had I known what the home was not doing for my mother, she may have lived longer. The team kept us up to date with weekly/biweekly progress reports. We hope that the nursing home has learned its lesson, and by us going through Lanzone Morgan, LLP, maybe it will stop another home from doing the same deplorable acts.”

Marlee

Recent Care Deficiencies at Thousand Oaks Nursing Facilities

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 1 in 10 adults aged 65 and older experience some form of elder abuse in a given year, yet research suggests only 1 in 14 cases is ever reported to authorities. The National Center on Elder Abuse found that over 64% of care facility staff admitted to committing some form of elder abuse. Of the roughly 110,000 California residents living in licensed nursing homes, an estimated 13% of complaints filed with the state’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman involve abuse or neglect.

Large nursing home chains invest heavily in legal defense. Why? Because accountability is too expensive for them. They count on families not knowing their rights.

Lanzone Morgan, LLP, exists to change that.

Public inspection records from facilities in and around Thousand Oaks show a documented pattern of care failures.

Thousand Oaks Post Acute - 93 W. Avenida De Los Árboles

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That is what public inspection records revealed for Thousand Oaks Post Acute, LLC.

Three of the deficiencies were tied to failures to follow proper infection-control protocols. The April 2025 standard inspection and the May 2025 complaint investigation both found that the facility was not accurately assessing the health and safety of its residents. A December 2024 complaint documented staff failing to treat residents with dignity or to respect their right to make basic decisions about their own care. In August 2024, the facility received two citations: one for the unacceptable treatment of a resident and the denial of that resident’s right to keep their personal belongings, and a second for failures in ostomy care and infection prevention. In 2023, it was shown that several residents had been subjected to physical restraints that were not medically necessary. A 2021 inspection found that facility staff were not following residents’ written care plans and that medications were not being stored properly.

Sherwood Oaks Post Acute - 250 Fairview Road

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A pattern of care planning failures is cited year after year at Sherwood Oaks Post Acute, including two serious infection-related citations.

In February 2025, the facility was cited for not reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or theft when it was supposed to.

Two months earlier, in December 2024, inspectors found the facility had failed to protect a resident’s personal belongings and finances.

Complaint investigations in 2023 flagged repeated failures to develop and follow through on complete care plans.

May 2024 brought a citation for pressure ulcer care, specifically for failing to treat existing wounds properly and for failing to take steps to prevent new ones from forming. Physicians’ orders were not followed on several occasions that same year.

In November 2022, a single regular inspection produced 11 citations on its own, involving everything from nutrition to pressure ulcer care and infection control.

Facilities that cut staff, ignore protocols, and try to blame a patient’s age when things go wrong count on families not knowing how to fight back. That’s what we’re here for. If this sounds at all familiar, if your loved ones are suffering from bedsores, fall or broken bone injuries, or more, please call (888) 887-9777 right away. The consultation is free.

Thousand Oaks Nursing Home Residents Have Rights

Nursing home residents in Ventura County are protected by both federal and state law. Under Federal Regulation, every nursing home resident has the right to be treated with dignity and respect and to live free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Residents also have the right to the following:

Receive care that promotes independence and quality of life, regardless of their diagnosis or payment source
Be free from medically unnecessary physical and chemical restraints
Participate in their own care decisions
File complaints without fear of retaliation
Receive visitors at any hour
Manage their personal finances and
Choose whether they want to keep their belongings

California Health and Safety Code requires nursing homes to employ enough qualified staff and to ensure that residents receive proper hygiene care and preventive treatment for bedsores and incontinence.

Our Thousand Oaks elder abuse attorneys know these protections in detail and know exactly how to apply them effectively on your behalf.

"People aren't supposed to get bed sores. People aren't supposed to fall and hit their heads. Especially when the family's trying to do the right thing by entrusting the care and paying thousands of dollars so that this doesn't happen, because they don't have the expertise to take care of them and keep them safe themselves."

Anthony Lanzone, Founding Partner

What To Do If You Suspect Nursing Home Abuse

If you have reached this point, you are probably carrying a lot of fear, anger, grief, and uncertainty about what comes next. Here is what to do.

Start by trusting what you are seeing. Document dates, observations, and anything your loved one has said or done that worried you. Then report your concerns to the appropriate authorities listed below:

California Department of Public Health (800) 554-0354
Long-Term Care Ombudsman CRISIS Line (800) 231-4024
Ventura County Sheriff’s Department (805) 654-9511 if you believe your loved one has experienced physical or sexual abuse.
Call 911 if your loved one is in immediate danger.

Every day that passes after an incident like this matters. Evidence can disappear, witnesses start to forget, and the legal window to act is limited. The care facility’s team is already working to protect itself. You deserve someone in your corner doing the same. You’ve already done the hardest part. You paid attention, and you refused to accept an answer that did not feel right. Let us take it from here.

Contact Our Thousand Oaks Nursing Home Abuse Attorneys

Families who place a loved one in a care facility deserve to feel confident that he or she is safe and properly cared for. When that trust is broken, you need an attorney who will stand up for your family and actually make a difference.

We are available around the clock. Every consultation is free. Our work not only helps the families we represent directly. It creates accountability, pushing care facilities across California to do better.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Does It Cost To Hire Lanzone Morgan?

Nothing upfront. We handle nursing home abuse cases on a contingency fee basis, advance all costs of investigation and litigation, and collect our fees only from the compensation we recover for you. If we do not win, you pay nothing.

Can a Nursing Home Restrict Me From Visiting My Loved One?

No. California nursing homes cannot place arbitrary limits on visitation. You have the right to visit at any hour, day, or night. We encourage families to show up at different times, including evenings and weekends, so facilities stay motivated to provide consistent care at all hours.

Are My Conversations With Lanzone Morgan Confidential?

Yes. All consultations and attorney-client communications are protected by the attorney-client privilege and held in strict confidence.

My Loved One Has Already Passed Away. Can I Still Pursue a Claim?

Yes. If your loved one died as a result of nursing home abuse or neglect, you may be entitled to bring a wrongful death claim on behalf of the estate and surviving family members. These claims can recover compensation for funeral expenses, loss of companionship, and the pain and suffering your loved one experienced before death. Time limits apply, so reach out as soon as possible.