Nursing Home Abuse & Elder Abuse Statistics in New Orleans
25+
Nursing Facilities in Orleans Parish
3,200
Nursing Home Beds (Orleans Parish)
1 year — critical urgency
Prescriptive Period (SOL)
Pure comparative fault — no bar
Comparative Fault
Courts in New Orleans, Louisiana
Orleans Parish Civil District Court
421 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112
U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Louisiana
500 Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Hospitals & Trauma Centers in New Orleans
University Medical Center New Orleans
2000 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70112
Tulane Medical Center
1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112
Liability Considerations in New Orleans
Nursing Home Abuse in New Orleans — Act Immediately
New Orleans elder abuse victims face Louisiana's 1-year prescriptive period — one of the two shortest in the nation. This means that a family discovering nursing home abuse must contact an attorney within days of discovery to allow adequate time for investigation, evidence preservation, and complaint preparation before the deadline expires. Louisiana's Civil Law system (derived from the Napoleonic Code rather than common law) has procedural differences from other states — including the use of judges rather than juries in many civil matters at the district level. New Orleans juries (for cases tried to jury) tend to be sympathetic to elder abuse plaintiffs, and Orleans Parish Civil District Court has seen substantial nursing home abuse verdicts. Louisiana's pure comparative fault system allows full recovery even with partial plaintiff fault, proportionally reduced.