A Luzerne County jury has awarded more than $3 million to the estate of a disabled woman who died from injuries related to a car accident she was in while under the care of a Pennsylvania group home. The group home, according to court papers, did not disclose the accident to doctors until two days after it took place.
Instead, court records show, it allowed the woman, who could not speak, to attend a regularly scheduled doctor’s appointment the day after the accident under the presumption no collision had happened.
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