Judge Approves $12.5 Million Class Action Settlement for Evacuated Nursing Home Patients

A Jefferson Parish judge approved a class-action settlement Monday for the 843 patients of seven south Louisiana nursing homes that Bob Dean evacuated for Hurricane Ida last year with fatal results.

24th Judicial District Judge Michael Mentz approved the all-or-nothing settlement after a two-day court hearing last week over the opposition of the Morris Bart law firm and other objectors on behalf of scores of Dean’s evacuated patients or their families.

Bart and others opposed to the settlement argued that lawyers for the class were trying to ram it through without a full accounting of Dean’s assets, which include properties from Oregon to Maine.

Read the source article at insurancenewsnet.com