July 23, 2026
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Dudensing Law secured a $2 million recovery for the family of a man who suffered a preventable death following a period of systemic neglect at a Sacramento residential care facility.
July 23, 2026
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Dudensing Law secured a $3 million recovery for the family of a man who suffered a series of devastating falls and a fatal infection while residing at a California skilled nursing facility.
July 23, 2026
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Dudensing Law secured a combined $3.5 million recovery for the family of a beloved mother who died after developing severe, preventable pressure wounds while a resident at a California skilled nursing facility, and under the care of a hospice provider.
July 23, 2026
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Dudensing Law secured an $8 million recovery for the family of a man who lost his leg after a California skilled nursing facility failed to monitor a known vascular condition.
July 2, 2026
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Dudensing Law founder Ed Dudensing presented a continuing legal education webinar for the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), teaching plaintiff-side elder abuse attorneys how to read and use nursing home financial records as litigation evidence.
June 29, 2026
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Law.com’s The Recorder has named founder Ed Dudensing as one of three finalists for “Attorney of the Year” at the 2026 California Legal Awards, and sat down with him to discuss his career and convictions that led to the recognition.
June 26, 2026
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Levin Associates, an industry side publisher of data relating to mergers, acquisitions, and finance in health care and seniors housing, recently posted a video discussing trends in the long-term care sector. Among other things, this video addressed Dudensing Law’s recent $110 million jury verdict against a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT), Colony Capital, and a private equity firm, Formation Capital. The video warns that the verdict could “scare off capital” from investing in the long-term care space.
June 24, 2026
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Dudensing Law is proud to welcome four exceptional law students to the firm this summer each bringing a background in service, advocacy, and a commitment to standing up for those who have been wronged.
June 9, 2026
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A recent investigation by Hunterbrook reports that The Ensign Group, the largest operator of skilled nursing facilities in the United States, systematically understaffs its facilities, resulting in millions of hours of missing care for some of the nation’s sickest and most vulnerable residents.
Part one of the investigation examined millions of CMS datapoints and reviewed thousands of pages of documents, finding a 5-million-hour gap between the nursing care Ensign’s residents needed and the care they received between July and November 2024.
Hunterbrook interviewed Dudensing Law founder Ed Dudensing as part of its reporting. “The regulation is that you have to staff to meet the needs of residents, and that consistently does not happen,” said Ed. “That’s illegal.”
The investigation also found that Ensign facilities consistently failed to meet minimum state staffing requirements in California, Washington, Tennessee, and Kansas on more than 18,000 cumulative days between 2020 and 2025.
Watch Hunterbrook‘s companion video on YouTube
June 4, 2026
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We’re proud to announce that Dudensing Law has once again been recognized in the prestigious 2026 Chambers and Partners USA Guide, maintaining its ranking in Band 3 for Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs – California. This year’s recognition carries added distinction, as firm founder Ed Dudensing also earned an individual ranking in the same practice category.
This summer we welcomed Gavin Bowen as one of our four summer clerks.
Gavin is a rising 3L at UC Berkeley School of Law, where he competes on the Alternative Dispute Resolution team and served as an article's editor for the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. He also led the Animal Law and Advocacy Project at Berkeley.
Gavin graduated with a degree in psychology and arrived at plaintiff-side litigation as the place where advocacy and integrity align.
Welcome to the team, Gavin!
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Dudensing Law is now on Substack! Founder Ed Dudensing will be sharing legal analysis, case insights, and commentary on the issues shaping elder care in California and beyond.
If you have ever wanted to understand elder abuse cases, what the law requires of care facilities, and why corporate structures matter, this is the place.
Subscribe here: protectcaliforniaelders.substack.com/
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Some nursing homes are not medicating residents to treat them -- they are using medication to sedate them.
Founder Ed Dudensing has seen this pattern throughout his career: facilities that are chronically understaffed turn to sedatives and antipsychotic medications as a substitute for adequate care.
Ed wrote about the risks of weakening federal oversight of sedative use in nursing homes in an op-ed for the Daily Journal.
Read the full article: www.dailyjournal.com/articles/390746-why-loosening-sedative-rules-in-nursing-homes-would-put-vuln...
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We are excited to highlight one of our summer clerks, Elizabeth “Buffy” Miksztal.
Buffy is a rising 3L at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she serves as co-president of the Plaintiffs' Law Association at Berkeley. Before law school, she worked as an EMT responding to calls at skilled nursing facilities, an experience that gives her firsthand insight into the vulnerabilities facing the clients we represent every day.
Buffy externed for District Court Judge Pitts during her 1L summer, where she saw how plaintiff-side civil litigation can serve as a tool for justice for vulnerable populations. Most recently, she worked on criminal defense appeals at the First District Appellate Project in Oakland.
We are glad to have her on the team this summer.
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In California elder abuse litigation, understaffing is recognized as far more than a simple management error.
Founder Ed Dudensing, author of the 2025 Rutter Group treatise “Elder Abuse Litigation,” provides critical insights into why chronic understaffing is often a calculated corporate decision to maximize profits at the expense of patient care.
California case law now recognizes that understaffing alone can support a jury finding of “recklessness.” This standard is critical because it shifts the focus from individual errors to corporate decisions that create unsafe conditions for vulnerable residents.
Learn more about the Rutter Group treatise: dudensinglaw.com/expertise/
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