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Arkansas Supreme Court Orders Arbitration In Nursing Home Case

March 12, 2016

In its opinion filed on February 18, 2016, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) overturned a lower court’s decision that the nursing home negligence claims brought by the plaintiff were not subject to arbitration pursuant to an arbitration agreement signed by t[...]

$1M Nursing Home Bedsore Claim Settlement

March 7, 2016

In late February 2016, shortly before the March 4 scheduled start of a California nursing home negligence and elder abuse lawsuit, the parties announced that the defendant California nursing home, which charges residents $100,000 per year for nursing home care and promised its residents that it woul[...]

New Illinois Law Will Allow Video/Audio Monitoring In Nursing Home Resident Rooms

August 24, 2015

On August 21, 2015, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law HB 2462, effective on January 1, 2016, which will allow electronic monitoring devices to be installed in nursing home resident rooms. Illinois is only the forth U.S. state to explicitly allow electronic monitoring devices to be in[...]

Nursing Home Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements: Good For Business, Bad For Residents

August 15, 2015

Nursing homes throughout the United States are increasingly including pre-dispute arbitration agreements in admission documents at the time that nursing homes residents are admitted into the nursing home. When a loved one is admitted into a nursing home, either for short-term physical rehabilita[...]

California Superior Court Decision Protects Unrepresented Nursing Home Residents

July 7, 2015

In a written opinion filed on June 24, 2015, the Superior Court of the State of California County of Alameda (“Superior Court”) determined that a California law that nursing homes had been using since 1992 to justify making unilateral decisions regarding medical care and treatment pro[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed For Resident’s Painful Death

June 26, 2015

A Maryland nursing home negligence lawsuit was recently filed by the grandson and daughter-in-law of an 85-year-old resident of a Baltimore nursing home who suffered an unexplained fracture of her left arm and an unexplained dislocated right arm while she was a resident of the defendant nursing h[...]

Study: MRSA Transmission In Nursing Homes

June 1, 2015

The results of a study published online on May 26, 2015 in the medical journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology entitled, Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to Healthcare Workers Gowns and Gloves During Care of Nursing Home Residents, concluded: ̶[...]

New Analysis Of CMS’ Nursing Home Compare Website Data

May 21, 2015

There are over 15,500 nursing homes in the United States that are certified to provide care to Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries (92% of the nursing homes are certified by both), which provide care for approximately 1.3 million residents every day. Seventy-percent of those nursing homes are for-p[...]

Nursing Home Care Costs In The United States Continue To Climb

April 15, 2015

A large Fortune 500 insurance company recently published the results of its survey of the costs of nursing home care in the United States. The costs of nursing home care in the United States increased by an average of 4% during the last five years – the median cost in now $91,250 (in 2014, t[...]

Oregon Nursing Home Resident Left On Toilet 45 Minutes, Fractures Pelvis

March 4, 2015

An Oregon man, who was seriously injured on his first day in an Oregon nursing home due to the alleged lack of care and assistance, has filed a $4 million nursing home negligence lawsuit against the Oregon nursing home to be compensated for his medical expenses, pain and suffering, and loss of mobil[...]

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[...]

Former Arkansas Judge Pleads Guilty To Accepting Bribe To Reduce Nursing Home Negligence Verdict

January 16, 2015

A former Arkansas circuit judge has pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe from a nursing home owner to reduce a nursing home negligence jury verdict, from $5.2 million to $1 million. The businessman who owned the nursing home had financed several political action committees that donated to the jud[...]

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