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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, [...]

AARP Report Finds Worsening Long-Term Care Affordability

May 12, 2026

AARP issued a report in March 2026 entitled “Long-Term Services and Supports Are Becoming Even More Unaffordable for Middle-Class Americans stated: “A recent analysis for the US Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 56 percent of people turning 65 between 2021 and 2025 w[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff In Claim Against Assisted Living Facility Not Entitled To Qualified Protective Order Regarding Notice Of Defendant’s Meetings With Her Medical Providers

February 3, 2025

Plaintiff filed a Michigan medical malpractice case against the defendant assisted living facility for injuries she sustained on May 20, 2020, when another resident at defendant’s assisted living facility allegedly caused plaintiff to fall. During the discovery process, defendant requested that th[...]

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[...]

$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[...]

Arkansas Living Assisted Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed For Woman Who Died In The Woods

November 25, 2022

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed For Woman Who Died In The Woods: The Estate of Barbara Doyle has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against The Brookfield Assisted Living and Memory Care at Highland Crossing and Brookfield Assisted Living LLC for the death of Doyle who was observed leaving the assisted liv[...]

99% Of U.S. Nursing Homes Face Staffing Shortages

September 28, 2021

A recent survey conducted by the American Health Care Association found that 99% of nursing homes and 96% of assisted living facilities in the United States are facing staffing shortages. The survey also found that 99% of nursing homes and 100% of assisted living facilities have requested current st[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Chancellor Senior Management, Ltd Loses Bid To Force Arbitration Of Assisted Living Class Action Claims

November 4, 2020

In 2016, the plaintiff filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Chancellor Senior Management, Ltd (“Chancellor”) alleging that Chancellor, which owned, operated, managed and controlled four senior living communities in the State of West Virginia consisting of multiple assisted livin[...]

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