Recently, an elderly woman was reported as "missing" from  Home Away Nursing Home.  After an extended effort to locate her, the woman was found deceased in the freezer of Home Away.  Surveillance footage captured a food service worker at the nursing facility, Jim, exiting the freezer and carelessly propping the door to the freezer open with a wheelchair before walking away from the freezer.  It appears that the elderly woman sat in the wheelchair, rolled into the freezer and the freezer closed behind her locking from the outside.  In initial efforts to escape from the freezer, the elderly woman found a pulled lever attached to a gas valve detaching it and releasing gas into the nursing facility.  As the gaseous fumes filled the nursing facility, other residents became ill and one patient, Thomas, became critically mentally impaired from ingesting of the fumes.  What must Thomas’s family show to recover damages from Home Away Nursing Home on behalf of Thomas for his impairment?

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Recently, an elderly woman was reported as "missing" from  Home Away Nursing Home.  After an extended effort to locate her, the woman was found deceased in the freezer of Home Away.  Surveillance footage captured a food service worker at the nursing facility, Jim, exiting the freezer and carelessly propping the door to the freezer open with a wheelchair before walking away from the freezer.  It appears that the elderly woman sat in the wheelchair, rolled into the freezer and the freezer closed behind her locking from the outside.  In initial efforts to escape from the freezer, the elderly woman found a pulled lever attached to a gas valve detaching it and releasing gas into the nursing facility.  As the gaseous fumes filled the nursing facility, other residents became ill and one patient, Thomas, became critically mentally impaired from ingesting of the fumes.  What must Thomas’s family show to recover damages from Home Away Nursing Home on behalf of Thomas for his impairment? 

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