Carbone Lawyers launch class action against Epping Gardens aged-care facility
A Melbourne aged-care facility at the centre of a large COVID-19 outbreak and multiple deaths has been hit with a fresh blow.
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A Melbourne aged-care facility with the state’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak is facing legal action from a top-tier personal injury law firm.
Carbone Lawyers launched the class action action against Epping Gardens aged-care facility, where 205 infections have been linked to and multiple deaths.
Head of personal injury law and litigation Jack Karantzis said: “We fight for the rights of the vulnerable who have been affected by mismanagement, greed and incompetence. Such conduct is abhorrent and unacceptable in a civilised society.”
Australian Medical Assistance Team (AUSMAT) personnel, usually sent to overseas disaster zones, were deployed to nursing homes across Melbourne, including Epping Gardens.
Patient vans queued outside the facility in Melbourne’s northern suburbs as gravely ill residents were rushed to hospital.
Epping Gardens’ parent company, Heritage Care Pty Ltd, which has nine for-profit aged-care homes across Sydney and Melbourne, is directed and owned by multi-millionaire aged-care moguls Tony Antonopoulos and Peter Arvanitis.
Heritage Care was contacted for comment.
Originally published as Carbone Lawyers launch class action against Epping Gardens aged-care facility