San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyer
If your loved one has been injured in a San Francisco nursing home fall, call 888-887-9777 or contact us online for a free consultation. We can investigate what happened and seek to hold the facility accountable on your family’s behalf.
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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Table of Contents:
- Why Families Choose Our San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyers
- Your Family Deserves Answers After a Nursing Home Fall
- How To Know If You Have a Nursing Home Fall Case
- Compensation for the Harm a Nursing Home Fall Caused
- How Our San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyers Build Your Case
- San Francisco Nursing Homes Cited for Fall-Related Safety Failures
- Get Answers From a San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyer
- Meet Our San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Attorneys
Learning that your loved one has fallen in the place entrusted with their care can be frightening. A serious injury or complication can cause lasting pain or change their ability to live independently. If the nursing home avoids your questions or offers only vague answers, you’re left wondering whether your loved one received the supervision and assistance they needed.
At Lanzone Morgan, LLP, our San Francisco Nursing Home Lawyers are dedicated to advocating for victims of elder abuse. We will listen to your concerns, investigate your loved one’s nursing home fall, determine whether the facility’s failures contributed to the fall, and pursue the accountability you deserve.
Why Families Choose Our San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyers
Nursing home abuse and neglect litigation is all our firm handles. More than 75 years of combined experience has taught us that an incident report rarely answers every question about a fall. Our attorneys examine call-light records, earlier falls, staffing files, and the resident’s care plan to determine whether the facility left someone without the help they needed.
Our trial-ready attorneys are relentlessly committed to safeguarding the rights and dignity of the elderly and never back down from a fight. Three of our attorneys were named among the Top 10 Nursing Home Trial Lawyers in 2026. Meanwhile, Ayman Mourad and Elizabeth Kim recently secured a California appellate decision in favor of a resident who suffered repeated falls when staff failed to supervise or assist her.
After getting vague answers from a facility, your family shouldn’t face more silence from its legal team. We’ll explain what’s happening and keep you informed throughout the case.
Your Family Deserves Answers After a Nursing Home Fall
If a nursing home moves your loved one or changes their care without telling you, the loss of control is frightening. When visits are restricted and calls go unanswered after a fall, vague explanations only add to that fear. You’re right to ask what happened and whether staff provided the help your loved one needed.
Facilities sometimes blame serious injuries on age or underlying health conditions. Age can increase fall risk, but it doesn’t excuse ignored call lights, inadequate supervision, unsafe transfers, or medication mistakes. Not every fall results from neglect, but your family shouldn’t be expected to accept that it was “inevitable” without a closer look.
You aren’t responsible for a nursing home’s failure to provide appropriate care. At Lanzone Morgan, LLP, we’re prepared to be a voice for victims of nursing home abuse and will fight to hold the facility accountable when their failure harms your loved one.
How To Know If You Have a Nursing Home Fall Case
You don’t need an incident report that admits fault or a complete set of records before calling an attorney. Nursing home falls often result in fractures and other serious injuries. If your loved one has sustained a broken hip, another fracture, a head injury, or a sudden loss of mobility, a preventable fall may be the cause. You may suspect nursing home neglect, especially if the nursing home’s explanation doesn’t fit what you know.
Consider what happened before and after the fall and ask the following:
- Did the staff know your loved one needed help walking or transferring?
- Had earlier falls occurred without new precautions?
- Did the facility delay medical treatment or give accounts that conflict with the records?
A case depends on whether the nursing home failed to provide needed care and whether that failure contributed to the injury. You don’t need to know whether the nursing home broke the law before you call. Tell us how the fall happened, what injuries followed, and what explanation the facility gave you. Our attorneys will investigate to determine whether failures in care played a role.
Compensation for the Harm a Nursing Home Fall Caused
We know that money can’t restore the health or independence your loved one lost. However, a successful claim can help cover the costs of medical treatment and continued care and compensate for your loved one’s pain, suffering, emotional distress, and reduced quality of life. If the resident has died, a wrongful death claim can account for funeral and burial expenses and the family’s losses. In addition, if a court finds that the conduct was reckless, malicious, oppressive, or fraudulent, it may award punitive damages, attorney fees, and litigation costs.
Lanzone Morgan, LLP, has a long track record of obtaining results for our clients. In two fall-related cases, we obtained separate $800,000 settlements:
- One for an elderly woman whose medication overdose caused a fall and hip fracture, and another for a resident who fractured her hip and wasn’t taken to the hospital in time.
- We also obtained a $1.5 million verdict when the judge found 578 violations of residents’ rights—the second-largest Residents’ Bill of Rights verdict in California history. However, note that prior results don’t guarantee a similar outcome.
Case Highlight: Repeated Falls Called for More Protection
In one notable case, our client entered an assisted living facility with dementia and a history of falls. As her confusion worsened, she fractured her wrist in May 2023 and fell three more times the next month. Even then, the facility continued to treat her as independent in tasks such as walking, transfers, showering, and toileting. Her daughter tried to arrange outside help, but the facility wouldn’t allow third parties inside memory care.
That October, paramedics found her on the floor with a femur fracture that required surgery. She became bedridden and died about a week later. Our attorneys argued that the facility’s failure to respond to falls led to her death. The case ended with an arbitration award in her family’s favor. It shows why earlier falls and a facility’s response to them matter when determining whether a later injury was preventable.
Can You Sue a San Francisco Nursing Home for Fall Injuries?
A San Francisco nursing home can be held liable when its failure to provide needed care and services causes or contributes to a resident’s fall.
California law recognizes failure to protect an elder from health and safety hazards as a form of nursing home neglect. For instance, a facility may be liable if staff knew a resident needed help walking or transferring but left them unsupervised, failed to take additional precautions after an earlier fall, overlooked medication side effects, or failed to address a known tripping hazard.
However, a fall doesn’t establish liability by itself. The evidence must connect a facility’s failure to the injury. If the nursing home calls the fall unavoidable, our attorneys can compare that explanation with the care plan, earlier fall records, medication logs, and witness accounts to determine what staff knew and how they responded.
How Our San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyers Build Your Case
Understanding why your loved one fell requires comparing the care they needed with the help the nursing home actually provided. Our attorneys can obtain care plans, fall-risk assessments, nursing notes, call-light logs, staffing schedules, medication records, and hospital records. We compare them with surveillance footage, witness accounts, earlier falls, and facility citations to determine what staff knew and where the care broke down. Depositions and reviews by qualified medical professionals can reveal failures the paperwork doesn’t explain.
At Lanzone Morgan, LLP, we build nursing home fall cases with trial-readiness in mind. In one five-year-long case, our attorneys rejected a $50,000 offer after investing $100,000 in the litigation. A jury eventually found for our client and awarded punitive damages, and the case was later resolved for seven figures. This case illustrates why our willingness to see a case through to the end matters when a facility refuses to accept responsibility.
“We know the ins and outs of nursing home litigation. We know how the long-term care industry operates. Because we know how they operate, we're in the best position to get the best results for the clients.”
San Francisco Nursing Homes Cited for Fall-Related Safety Failures
Hip Fracture From an Obstructing Fall Mat at San Francisco Health Care
In a February 2025 inspection, federal regulators cited San Francisco Health Care for actual harm involving two residents. In one incident, a resident with a high risk for falls tripped over a mat that obstructed the space between two beds. He fractured his right femur and underwent partial hip replacement surgery. Inspectors also found that another resident suffered a large head hematoma after staff used a wheelchair with missing armrest padding. She required two hospitalizations.
Fatal Fall From a Raised Bed at The Avenues Transitional Care Center
In an October 2025 inspection, federal regulators cited The Avenues Transitional Care Center over the death of a resident with quadriplegia and severe cognitive impairment. The resident was reportedly left alone in a raised bed with both rails down and rolled face-first onto the floor, suffering bleeding around the brain. According to the report, hospital records listed traumatic brain injury as the preliminary cause of death. The investigation identified the resident’s positioning and low-air-loss mattress as contributing factors.
Get Answers From a San Francisco Nursing Home Fall Lawyer
The facility controls the chart and writes its own account of the fall. However, that explanation is not conclusive—and may not even be truthful. Our San Francisco nursing home fall lawyers can obtain the underlying evidence and determine whether failures in care contributed to your loved one’s injury.
The San Francisco nursing home lawyers at Lanzone Morgan, LLP, are here to get answers for your family. We’ll listen closely and tell you whether further investigation is warranted. If the evidence points to neglect, we’ll pursue accountability on your family’s behalf.
Call 888-887-9777 or contact us online today for a free consultation.
Written and edited by our team of expert legal content writers and reviewed and approved by attorney Anthony C. Lanzone.
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- 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
- Nursing Homes
- Assisted Living Facilities
- Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly, or RCFE
- Memory Care Facilities
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Adult Day Care Centers
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Non-Emergency Transport Providers
- Acute Care Hospitals