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Minnesota Assisted Living Resident Died After Falling And Slowly Asphyxiating, As Staff Stood By

January 24, 2026

An incident report dated March 30, 2025, at 5:33 p.m., indicated ULP-D had been in the assisted living dining room, getting coffee and spoke with residents. Dietary staff (DS)-E informed ULP-D R1 fell off his scooter and was lying across his scooter with his neck being pinched between his scooter an[...]

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, [...]

Ohio Supreme Court Affirms 65-Year Prison Sentence For Nursing Home Thefts

March 15, 2024

Background Facts For approximately eight years, Susan Gwynne—either in her position as a nurse’s aide or while posing as one—stole items of sentimental and monetary value from elderly residents of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. Gwynne was indicted on 86 felony counts—31 counts[...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Order Arbitration Of Negligence Claims Against Assisted Living Facility

January 25, 2024

Cecil Kepner brought a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit in his individual capacity and as successor in interest to his mother Darlene Kepner (“Darlene”) against the owners and operators of the Oakmont Senior Living Facility, where Darlene had been a resident. Darlene had fallen at t[...]

$2M Arkansas Assisted Living Wrongful Death Settlement

July 21, 2023

$2M Assisted Living Wrongful Death Settlement: On May 25, 2023, a wrongful death lawsuit filed against an Arkansas assisted living facility was settled for $2 million. The wrongful death lawsuit alleged that Brookfield Assisted Living LLC, which operated an assisted living facility in Bella Vista, A[...]

$12.5M Wrongful Death Judgment Against Florida Assisted Living Facility

April 14, 2023

$12.5M Judgment Against Assisted Living Facility: In January 2023, a $12.5 million default judgment was entered against A Place to Grow, which was an assisted living facility located in Brandon, Florida until in closed in September 2022, in favor of the family of a 59-year-old resident who resided i[...]

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[...]

Assisted Living Facilities Statistics In The United States

December 10, 2022

Assisted Living Facilities Statistics In The United States: The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) is the largest association in the United States representing long term and post-acute care providers, with more than 14,000 member facilities. A[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Fall Due To Crack In Assisted Living Sidewalk Not Health Care Liability Claim

May 26, 2021

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its split-decision En Banc Opinion filed on May 3, 2021: “Here, the standards on which Faber bases her claim do not implicate Collin Creek’s duties as a health care provider or its duties to [...]

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[...]

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