$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[...]
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Michigan Assisted Living Facility Sued For Elopement Death
January 22, 2017
The husband of a woman suffering from early onset dementia filed a lawsuit on January 12, 2017 against the Michigan assisted living facility where she had resided, for her death that resulted from her elopement from the facility and the failure of the assisted living facility staff to check on her. [...]
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Maryland Nursing Homes Suffer Ratings Losses
March 1, 2015
Twenty-two Maryland nursing homes lost their five-star ratings when Medicare recently revised its method of determining nursing home ratings nationwide, effective as of February 20, 2015. The federal website known as Nursing Home Compare provides rating information on nursing homes in all U.S. s[...]
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Cost Of Long Term Care In The United States In 2014
April 26, 2014
A recently published survey of the cost of long term care in the United States in 2014 reported that the cost of long term care has steadily increased over the last eleven years but that the cost of long term care provided at home has grown at a lesser rate than the cost of long term care provid[...]
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$1M Verdict Against Maryland Assisted Living Facility
March 17, 2014
On March 12, 2014, a Maryland jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of the estate of a former resident of a Maryland assisted living facility for the pain and suffering the 86-year-old woman suffered before her death on March 26, 2012. The four-woman, two-man jury deliberat[...]
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