About Anna Turpin
Anna Claire Turpin is an attorney at Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law in North Carolina. Her practice focuses on nursing home abuse and neglect cases, with prior background in family law and personal injury.
Turpin earned her Bachelor's degree from James Madison University and her Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. During law school, she helped Campbell Law win its first National Trial Team Championship, won a regional competition at the American Association for Justice trial competition, and received the Outstanding Advocate Award at the South Texas Mock Trial Competition.
She is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
She is a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ NEXT Leadership Cohort, 2022-2023), the American Association for Justice, and the North Carolina Bar Association.
She was named to Business NC Legal Elite in 2022 and 2023. She has worked on a $2.7 million nursing home settlement in March 2025 involving a resident's death following an injury.
Notable case results
A 73-year-old man admitted to a North Carolina nursing home for ankle-fracture rehabilitation developed untreated Stage 4 pressure ulcers within 27 days and died, and Henson Fuerst resolved the wrongful-death claim for $4 million.
A 69-year-old North Carolina nursing home resident who needed two staff members for all care suffered a broken femur when an understaffed facility sent one aide to move her alone, and her claim settled for $3.5 million in June 2025.
Nursing home settlement involving resident death following injury
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
