4th lawsuit filed against Symphony of Joliet nursing home

A fourth lawsuit has been filed against Symphony of Joliet over the coronavirus-related death of a resident, court records show.

Andrelenna Grant, the granddaughter of 85-year-old Jesse Mosley, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home on Wednesday. Grant's lawsuit alleged Mosley, a resident of Symphony of Joliet at 306 N. Larkin Ave., died as a result of the nursing home’s “gross negligence.”

“Jesse’s early and wrongful death was a byproduct of years of the nursing home’s mismanagement, misallocation of resources and staffing, and repeated violations and cited deficiencies of infection control and prevention requirements,” Grant’s lawsuit said.

Mosley died on April 10 with COVID-19, pneumonia and acute respiratory failure listed as the causes of death, the lawsuit said.

Mosley was a resident of Symphony of Joliet from May 1, 2017, through April 6, the lawsuit said.

Mosley was at “high risk of suffering serious medical complications” from contracting COVID-19 and from dying of the disease, the lawsuit said.

Grant is being represented by attorneys with Levin & Perconti, the same law firm that filed three other lawsuits against Symphony of Joliet over the deaths of Frances Harriet Carr, David Mitchell and Diane Brooks.

Symphony spokeswoman Natalie Bauer Luce has called the lawsuits against Symphony of Joliet “baseless.”

"These suits send a dangerous message to patients, families and health care workers still fighting COVID-19 on the frontlines," Luce said. "They are the reason why Gov. Pritzker issued an executive order of immunity to protect health care workers from this kind of predatory action."

Luce said the lawsuits "blatantly ignore the lengths Symphony went to counteract the spread of COVID-19," such as retaining an infectious disease control expert and a gerontologist to lead a task force "that put in place infection prevention protocols that exceeded the CDC recommendations and that were well ahead of the government's delayed and conflicting guidance over the early months of the pandemic."