when i was terminated from my job at a nursing home for having a broken ankle suffered at home

Depending on the facts of your dismissal and the terms of your employment, you could have a case for wrongful termination. The healthcare issue is a much simpler case.   COBRA notices are required upon termination.  If your employer failed to provide you with a COBRA notice, federal law makes your employer liable for a fine of up to $110 dollars per day for each day (after 30 days) that the notice was late.  See 29 USC 1132(c)(1). If there was a relationship between your termination and your health care coverage, your employer could have also violated another federal law that makes it illegal to discriminate against anyone "for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of an employee benefit plan..."  29 USC. 1140. I hope that helps, Joshua Erlich