Nursing Home Manager, Owners Face Suit on Resident’s Injuries

The New York-based owners of a company that manages a Tennessee nursing home must defend a personal injury suit in Tennessee because they are sufficiently involved in the company’s operations to be sued there, a federal trial court said.

Donald Denz, Norbert Bennett, and the trust companies they manage are subject to suit in Tennessee under an alter ego theory because they control both a nursing home and its management company, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee said.

The case involves thorny issues of federal procedure in the nursing home industry, where multiple levels of ownership ...