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Federal Spending And Medicaid Coverage For Assisted Living Facilities

September 15, 2026

Assisted Living Facilities Assisted living facilities provide a residential alternative to in-home care and nursing homes for people who need assistance with activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, and toileting. Assisted living facilities provide room and board, which includes housing, [...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms No Punitive Damages Against Assisted Living Facility

January 22, 2026

Dana Jones’s mother, Doscina Pendleton, was an elderly, terminally ill woman under hospice care, residing in the memory care unit of Truewood By Merrill (“Truewood”), an assisted living facility, from December 31, 2018 until she passed away on December 25, 2020. On the night of her[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds Removal Of COVID-19 Assisted Living Case To Federal Court Was Improper

January 9, 2025

In October 2019, Sara Schleider was admitted as a patient at an assisted living facility owned and operated by Defendants. Around May 9, 2020, she contracted COVID-19 at Defendants’ facility and died soon after . Plaintiffs, as representatives for Sara Schleider’s estate, asserted survival and w[...]

Florida Appellate Court Reinstates Resident-On-Resident Assault Case Against Assisted Living Facility

December 15, 2024

Background Facts In May of 2018, Maria M. Mosher was admitted into the defendant assisted living facility, Sumter Place in the Villages, located in Sumter County, Florida. During her stay, Mosher was placed in the facility’s memory care unit. On April 2, 2019, while still in the memory care unit, [...]

82-Year-Old Found Dead Two Days After Walking Out Of Assisted Living Facility

January 27, 2023

82-Year-Old Found Dead Two Days After Walking Out Of Assisted Living Facility: Joan L. Meredith, 82, was a resident at The Merriman, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facility at 209 Merriman Road in Akron, Ohio. She was found dead behind the facility two days after walking away from the a[...]

Seattle Assisted Living Facility To Pay $8M To Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

April 24, 2021

The Associated Press (AP) reported that a Seattle assisted living facility’s insurance company has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the assisted living facility’s lax supervision of an employee resulted in the ability of the employee to repeatedly rape and sexually abuse a vu[...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Refuses To Enforce Assisted Living Facility Arbitration Agreement

March 28, 2021

The Supreme Court of South Carolina, in its opinion dated March 10, 2021, held: “Under the facts of this case, neither the GDPOA [General Durable Power of Attorney] nor the HCPOA [Health Care Power of Attorney] granted Arredondo authority to execute the arbitration agreement. Therefore, we rev[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Does Not Allow Expert’s Net Opinion Against Assisted Living Facility

March 10, 2021

In its decision filed on February 5, 2021, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in an assisted living negligence case that “inspecting a patient’s room at least once per hour may well be a reasonable standard, depending on ho[...]

SC Appellate Court Denies Residential Care Facility’s Motion

September 6, 2020

The South Carolina Court of Appeals (“South Carolina Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated July 29, 2020, held: “We conclude Appellants may not use equitable estoppel to bind Weaver to the arbitration provision. Because no valid arbitration agreement existed between Appellants an[...]

North Carolina Assisted Living Facility Cited For Dementia Residents Fight Club

November 10, 2019

On July 26, 2019, the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation cited a North Carolina assisted living facility (adult care home) stating: “Based on observations, interviews and record reviews, the facility failed to assure 3 of 6 sampled residents (Residents #8, #9 and #10) in the [...]

$6M Florida Assisted Living Wrongful Death Verdict

May 28, 2019

The family of a 97-year-old resident of a Florida assisted living facility received a verdict against the defendant Florida assisted living facility in the amount of $6 million in May 2019, for the death of the resident in 2017 after she fell outside the facility in the scorching July heat and no on[...]

$42.5M California Elder Abuse Verdict Against Assisted Living Facility

May 23, 2019

In April 2019, an elder abuse jury in California returned its verdict in the amount of $42.5 million against as assisted living facility for the death of a resident, awarding the woman’s family $7 million in compensatory damages and an additional $35 million in punitive damages, which represen[...]

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