NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) — A New York nursing home faces a lawsuit that pins blame on it for the COVID-related death of a resident.
The Estate of Josephine Decicco, by her proposed administrator, Grace Decicco, filed a complaint Nov. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against GWC-Mill Basin, Inc., and Sunrise At Mill Basin, alleging negligence and other claims.
Decicco alleges in her complaint that her mother Grace Decicco was a resident at the defendants' Sunrise At Mill Basin facility in Brooklyn. She claims her mother contracted COVID-19 while at the facility, which led to her death in April of 2020.
Decicco claims that Sunrise had received numerous complaints and received citations for violating federal and public safety health codes between 2018 and 2022. She further claims that the defendants failed to have appropriate polices and staffing in the event of infectious disease exposure and outbreak.
Decicco also claims the defendants failed to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused her mother's death.
Decicco seeks monetary relief, interest, trial by jury and all other just relief. She is represented by Justin Varughese of Leitner Varughese Warywoda PLLC in Melville.