Kelly Law Offices, P.C. successfully negotiated a confidential settlement for the estate of a 14-year-old suicide victim The victim’s death resulted from the youth hanging herself in a shower stall after asking permission to use the restroom of a residential home for troubled teens, where the youth was then seeking treatment. The estate claimed that the facility was negligent for failing to properly supervise the troubled youth and for maintaining an unsafe premises, since it did not use breakaway bars in the showers to prevent such hangings.
The Defendant denied liability, but agreed to a facilitative mediation, which resulted in the confidential settlement.
