A lawsuit filed in Multnomah County alleges that staff at a Portland retirement and care center dropped a 60-year old woman, breaking her legs and left to suffer for five days without medical care before she died.

Linda Ober lived at the Gateway Care and Retirement Center in Northeast Portaland after suffering a stroke in 2004.

Her daughter Sara Cunningham says she learned that over Halloween last year, her mother was dropped while being transferred from her wheelchair into bed.

She says her mother insisted she had been hurt, but attendants just gave her pain-killers and told her it was a bad dream. They also told her mother that they would contact Cunningham but did not.

She and her siblings are seeking $3.5 million.

The home says false and misleading statements have been made about the incident.