Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
February 19, 2012
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death
February 3, 2012
On January 31, 2012, the mother of a Kentucky inmate filed a wrongful death medical malpractice claim arising out of the death of her 26-year-old incarcerated son due to alleged failure to provide necessary medical care including the failure to provide him with his daily medicine for a congenital[...]
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U.S. Government Alleges Kentucky Nursing Home Committed Fraud
January 17, 2012
In a complaint filed by the U.S. government against a Kentucky nursing home chain and its owners, it is alleged that the Kentucky nursing home fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid $16 million for worthless services and care that was so grossly deficient and abusive that it caused “egregio[...]
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