$4.55 Million Awarded in Woman’s Bed Rail Death
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SANTA FE, N.M. — The family of a woman strangled by a folding bed rail in a nursing home has been awarded $4.55 million in damages, a judge said Monday.
District Judge Steve Herrera said the award went to the three children of 63-year-old Billie Trew, an Alzheimer’s patient who died when she caught her head and arm between the vertical railings of a bed at a nursing home in Carlsbad in 1993.
The lawsuit claimed liability by the bed rail’s designer and manufacturer.
A separate complaint against the nursing home was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount earlier this month.
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