Lawsuit Filed over Erie Veteran’s Neglect Death – By Ed Palattella (Erie Times-News) / June 19 2020
The case of an 85-year-old U.S. Army veteran who was found buried in a shallow grave has returned to the Erie County Courthouse two years after his death and a year after his two caretakers were sentenced to state prison for causing his demise.
The case of the veteran, Vincent Force, has become a civil matter, with his nephew filing a negligence lawsuit against the two caretakers and the Greater Erie Community Action Committee.
The nephew, Richard Force, is contending that the caretakers, Antonio McLaurin and Elizabeth Taylor, were responsible for his uncle’s death by providing “little or no care” for him him and by ignoring warnings that his life was in danger due to health problems, including bedsores. Vincent Force also had dementia.
Richard Force is claiming that GECAC and an affiliate, the Greater Erie Economic Development Corp., were negligent in failing to adequately care for Vincent Force through GECAC’s adult protective services program.
“The negligence and gross negligence of Defendant GECAC was the direct and proximate cause of Vincent Force’s suffering and ultimate death,” according to the lawsuit, which Richard Force’s lawyer, Anthony Andrezeski, filed June 5.
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