Settlement ends suit involving assisted living facility

101.7/WGOG NEWS has received word of a pre-trial settlement in a civil lawsuit between a man’s estate and an assisted living care facility near Seneca.  No details of the settlement were given during a hearing yesterday in the Oconee Common Pleas Court in the case of Charles Ward, as personal representative for the estate of Charles Ward Jr. versus Inn at Seneca, doing business as Keowee Place.  Court pleadings show Charles Ward Jr. suffered multiple falls while a resident in the facility and died April 11 this year, cause of death complications from a head injury due to what was called “an unsupported fall” there.