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Former Arkansas Nursing Home Owner Arrested For Stealing Over $43K From Residents’ Trust Fund Accounts

September 9, 2020

The Arkansas Attorney General announced on July 27, 2020 the arrest of Keith Alan Head (“Head”), the former owner of Prescott Manor Nursing Center in Prescott, Arkansas, by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Head is accused of emptying or severely depleting residents�[...]

Arkansas Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

March 4, 2020

In its opinion filed on February 12, 2020, the Arkansas Court of Appeals Division II (“Arkansas Appellate Court”) refused to enforce an alleged arbitration agreement between a nursing home resident and the defendant nursing home regarding the subsequent nursing home negligence claims fil[...]

Former Chief Of Pathology At Arkansas VA Indicted, Including Three Counts Of Involuntary Manslaughter

September 19, 2019

The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Arkansas (“U.S. Attorney”) announced on August 20, 2019 that 53-year-old Robert Morris Levy (“Levy”), who served as the Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medical Services at the Veterans Health Care System[...]

Federal Appellate Court Overturns Order Compelling Arbitration In Nursing Home Wrongful Death Case

August 8, 2019

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) overturned the district court’s order compelling arbitration of the plaintiff’s nursing home wrongful death claim, stating in its opinion filed on July 23, 2019, “based on this record,[...]

Arkansas Supreme Court States Nursing Home May Be Entitled To Charitable Immunity From Wrongful Death Lawsuit

April 20, 2019

The Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 11, 2019 that the defendant nursing home that had been sued for negligence that allegedly resulted in a resident’s painful death may be entitled to charitable immunity from the lawsuit. The [...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Rejects Wide-Ranging Tort Reform Ballot Measure As Unconstitutional

October 31, 2018

The Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) issued an opinion on October 18, 2018 in which it held that a legislative initiative to submit for voter approval wide-ranging tort reforms on the November 6, 2018 general election ballot was unconstitutional. In 2017, the Arkansas[...]

$344,000 Settlement For Arkansas Jail Death

July 13, 2018

An Arkansas county and the private health care provider contracted to provide medical services to prisoners in the county jail reportedly settled a deliberate indifference wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a jailed prisoner who died as a result of the failure of the defendants to provide[...]

Arkansas Appellate Court Discusses Spoliation Of Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Case

February 22, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Arkansas, Division II (“Arkansas Appellate Court”) in its opinion filed on October 25, 2017 discussed the duty to preserve medical records and the issue of spoliation of medical records in an Arkansas medical malpractice case. Duty To Preserve Under Ark. R. Civ. P[...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Affirms Class Certification In Nursing Home Understaffing Lawsuit

May 27, 2017

In its opinion delivered on May 4, 2017, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) affirmed that the lower court’s class certification was proper with regard to understaffing claims against the nursing home defendants, except for the negligence claims because the nur[...]

Arkansas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

April 30, 2017

In its opinion delivered on March 29, 2017, the Arkansas Court of Appeals “(Appellate Court”) ruled that there was no error committed by the trial judge during a medical malpractice jury trial, and therefore affirmed the jury’s defense verdict. The Arkansas medical malpractice [...]

Arkansas Medical Malpractice Defendant Failed To Preserve Issues For Appeal

March 18, 2017

In an Arkansas medical malpractice case decided by the Arkansas Court of Appeals on March 8, 2017, the Arkansas medical malpractice defendant argued that the plaintiff had failed to prove negligence during the trial, contending that the evidence was insufficient to show that his failure to perform a[...]

$46.5M Arkansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Newborn’s Untreated Jaundice Leading To Brain Damage

March 12, 2017

After a two-week trial, an Arkansas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $46.5 million for the severe permanent brain damage suffered by a newborn caused by untreated jaundice at birth that developed into kernicterus. As a result, the now two-and-a-half-year-old child has l[...]

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