Tulare County Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer

If you suspect your loved one suffered abuse or neglect in a Tulare County nursing home, Lanzone Morgan, LLP, is ready to fight for your family. Call 888-887-9777 to start pursuing the compensation and accountability your loved one deserves.

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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Placing a loved one in a nursing home requires an enormous amount of trust. When abuse or neglect occurs, families are often left with a deep sense of injustice. If care failures at a Tulare County nursing home have harmed your loved one, our firm is prepared to investigate and advocate for the results your family needs to move forward.

Table of Contents:

Why Families Trust Our Tulare County Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers
What Compensation Can You Recover for Your Loved One’s Nursing Home Abuse?
You’re Not Responsible for a Nursing Home’s Failures
Who Can You Hold Liable for Nursing Home Abuse?
How We Build a Strong Nursing Home Abuse Case
Care Deficiencies in Tulare County Nursing Homes
Accountability Matters After Your Loved One Suffers Preventable Harm in a Nursing Home
Meet Our Tulare County Attorneys

Why Families Trust Our Tulare County Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers

Our firm is exclusively dedicated to protecting the rights of California’s most vulnerable adults. Fighting nursing home abuse is all we do, and we do it well.

These cases involve a complex regulatory framework and powerful corporate entities. Our depth of experience allows us to build more robust cases and better anticipate the opposing side’s tactics. We know the long-term care industry well, and we don’t back down when nursing homes try to minimize the suffering their negligence has caused.

Founding partners James Morgan and Anthony Lanzone started the firm with a shared mission: to be a voice for the voiceless. With more than 75 years of combined experience and over $250 million recovered for California nursing home abuse victims and their families, we’ve earned a reputation for holding negligent facilities accountable. Our advocacy has made a meaningful difference in California case law, strengthened protections for nursing home residents, and helped countless families pursue justice.

“I had a wonderful experience with Jim and Lanzone Morgan, LLP. It was a very difficult situation. My mother had really suffered in the hands of a dreadful nursing home. I was so upset watching her, I decided to sue the nursing home. It was my first experience with a lawsuit of any kind. Jim and his firm were kind, always communicated clearly, and responded immediately. He patiently talked me through each step and was honest about our chances to (not good) walk away with a settlement. We did, eventually, win a monetary settlement!! What a nice surprise. Owing, I'm sure, to the firm's expertise. For a first experience with a lawsuit, it was very pleasant. But best of all was knowing that there were consequences for the nursing home and their horrendous treatment of my mother. Thank you, Jim and co!!”

Minter

“The dedication & professionalism of Lanzone Morgan, LLP, helped us through a very difficult time. As a result of their expertise, our case(s) were resolved favorably & a wonderful relationship with our family continues to stay connected. Atty's Lanzone & Morgan & their staff came highly recommended, and I invite anyone experiencing issues with possible elderly abuse/neglect in a nursing facility to contact their office. On behalf of my family, thank you!”

JoyCree

“Learning that my mother was dying of Alzheimer's was devastating on its own. The emotional toll of the disease, treatment costs, and learning who to trust with her care was exhausting. When that trust was breached by a memory care facility, resulting in her death, I hired Lanzone Morgan to ensure that my mother's memory would not be marred by one facility's negligence. This firm was empathetic, informative, and patient with my family and me during the entire litigation. With their help, we received a fair settlement from the memory care facility and, most importantly, brought us a sense of justice and peace and brought dignity to my mother's life and our memory of her.”

Nelson

What Compensation Can You Recover for Your Loved One’s Nursing Home Abuse?

Nursing home abuse can leave residents and their families facing significant financial, emotional, and physical losses. While compensation for these losses can never undo what happened to your loved one, it can be a powerful tool for accountability and help your family move forward with the resources needed to address the harm that was done.

Depending on the circumstances, your nursing home abuse damages may include medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and the cost of relocating your loved one to a safer facility. If your loved one has died from nursing home abuse injuries, you may seek wrongful death damages, such as funeral expenses and loss of companionship.

Our Results in California Nursing Home Abuse Cases

Our firm has secured substantial settlements and verdicts for people affected by nursing home abuse, such as the following:

$2.3 million verdict for a nursing home’s abuse and neglect of an 84-year-old woman that led to severe and permanent injuries
$1.2 million settlement against a doctor and a nursing home that neglected a resident and allowed him to starve to death
$800,000 settlement for an elderly woman given an overdose of medication that caused her to fall and fracture her hip
$800,000 settlement for an elderly resident who suffered an unexplained compound fracture while staying at an assisted living facility

You’re Not Responsible for a Nursing Home’s Failures

Many families can point to a moment when they first felt uneasy about a loved one’s care. You might have noticed behavioral changes, weight loss, or even a serious injury. When you tried to figure out what happened, staff members might have offered inconsistent explanations or ignored your outreach altogether.

Looking back, it’s easy to question whether you should have done something differently—but you’re not responsible for what happened. You rightfully trusted the nursing home to provide safe, attentive, dignified care to your loved one, and that trust was broken. When a resident develops severe bedsores or sepsis, has repeated falls or suffers fractures, becomes malnourished, or is the victim of a wrongful death, the blame lies with those responsible for their care.

If you suspect something wasn’t right with the care your loved one received, trust that instinct. Our nursing home neglect lawyers can listen carefully to your concerns, uncover the truth, and fight for the justice your family deserves.

Who Can You Hold Liable for Nursing Home Abuse?

Residents’ loved ones typically contact us after realizing something doesn’t add up. They discover a serious bedsore, an infection, a fall, or another injury and wonder why no one informed them sooner.

The same breakdowns that leave families searching for answers often point to deeper problems within the facility. Nurses and other caregivers are responsible for meeting residents’ daily needs and monitoring changes in their condition. Administrators are responsible for maintaining adequate staffing, training employees, and responding to complaints. Ownership groups and management companies also have a duty to prioritize residents’ well-being over their own profits.

Failures at any level of the facility’s operations could lead to liability. In some cases, multiple parties are liable for the same incident. Our elder abuse attorneys in Tulare County have a reputation for standing up against negligent caregivers and nursing home corporations, and we’re prepared to build a strong case against everyone responsible for your loved one’s suffering.

How We Build a Strong Nursing Home Abuse Case

Your family’s experience builds the foundation for a successful nursing home abuse claim. Our job is to take the information you provide and build a case that can withstand the legal challenges nursing homes and their insurance companies often raise. Here’s what that process might involve:

Determining What Happened: When you turn to us for help, we’ll listen carefully to your concerns and learn what happened from your family’s perspective. This gives us an understanding of the fundamental issues behind the case and allows us to assess your family’s damages.
Uncovering the Evidence: Our elder abuse lawyers in Tulare County will gather medical records, witness statements, staffing information, surveillance footage, and other evidence to identify the negligence that contributed to your loved one’s injuries. This evidence will also allow us to determine exactly who’s at fault.

Working With Experts: We’ll also collaborate with third-party experts, such as nursing professionals, to evaluate how the care your loved one received differed from the level of care they required.

“So what Lanzone Morgan, LLP, does when we get a call, and we feel as though there's a case, we work with a team of people in order to investigate the case. We use experts who help us review the case and figure out what the legal issues are. We use our lawyers in the office; we use our paralegals. We are set up to investigate these cases to find out where the evidence is. The hard part about what we do is that we have to work in two areas. We have to work in the real world, which is the story that we get from the family members or the victim about what happened. Then, from that, we have to try to build a case that we can present in court, which has a bunch of different rules than the real world. And so Lanzone Morgan, we're really experts at doing that. We've done it thousands of times, and we've tried a number of cases. We've had a number of victories, and one unique thing about hiring Lanzone Morgan is that the defendant usually knows who we are and what we're capable of. And because of that, we're able to get the best result possible for the victims. If you or a loved one has been injured in a nursing home or assisted living facility in California, call Lanzone Morgan. We can help.”

Anthony Lanzone, Founding Partner

Care Deficiencies in Tulare County Nursing Homes

Nursing home negligence is more common than you might expect. All 16 of Tulare County’s nursing homes have had recent infection-related deficiencies, and four have been the subject of Medicare payment suspensions. Cumulatively, these facilities have incurred over $411,000 in penalties due to recent inspection findings.

Serious care deficiencies are particularly common in certain nursing homes. Orchards at Tulare, River Walk Care Center, and Sequoia Transitional Care have all received citations for significant health and safety violations. If your loved one has experienced negligence similar to any of these situations at a long-term care facility in Tulare County, you may have the right to take legal action.

Orchards at Tulare

A November 2024 inspection of Orchards at Tulare resulted in a citation for Actual Harm. According to the inspection records, a resident with Alzheimer’s disease suffered multiple injuries requiring hospitalization in an incident involving a staff member. Inspectors also cited the facility for a separate incident involving verbal abuse of another resident.

Later, in May 2025, inspectors issued an Immediate Jeopardy citation after identifying serious infection control failures during an outbreak of dangerous antibiotic-resistant organisms. The facility allegedly failed to follow key infection-prevention measures, including proper hand hygiene. Surveyors concluded that these failures contributed to the spread of multidrug-resistant infections among numerous residents.

River Walk Care Center

In a September 2025 inspection of River Walk Care Center in Porterville, inspectors found that the facility’s failures caused actual harm to a resident with a history of repeated falls. The facility failed to implement a fall prevention care plan, and the resident eventually suffered a fractured hip that required hospitalization and surgical repair.

Sequoia Transitional Care

An April 2025 inspection of Sequoia Transitional Care in Porterville resulted in an Actual Harm citation for alleged neglect of a resident with dementia and a history of falls. Inspection records show that staff left the resident waiting approximately 30 minutes for assistance to the bathroom. The resident then attempted to toilet herself, fell, and suffered a head laceration requiring three staples as well as a compression fracture of the thoracic spine.

When inspectors returned in January 2026, they issued another Actual Harm citation involving pain management. Surveyors found that staff failed to appropriately monitor a resident after administering prescribed opioid medication and did not adequately respond to signs of over-sedation. The resident required a seven-day hospitalization for treatment of an opioid overdose.

Accountability Matters After Your Loved One Suffers Preventable Harm in a Nursing Home

When a nursing home fails to provide residents with the care they need, pursuing legal action can shed light on the problems that enabled the neglect. While nothing can undo the harm your loved one has already suffered, a lawsuit can provide the compensation your family needs to move forward and spur accountability within the long-term care industry. The issues involved in your loved one’s case are likely not isolated incidents, and your claim has the potential to prevent others from suffering similar harm.

At Lanzone Morgan, LLP, we’re singularly focused on protecting the rights of California’s elderly community. Let our Tulare County nursing home abuse lawyers put that mission to work for your family, starting with a free consultation.

Call 888-887-9777 or contact us online to discuss your rights, options, and next steps with a trusted member of our team.