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Pennsylvania Nursing Home RN Charged With Killing Two Residents And Intentionally Drugging A Third

September 17, 2023

Nursing Home RN Charged With Killing Two Residents: Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced on May 25, 2023 criminal charges filed against a western Pennsylvania registered nurse accused of administering lethal doses of unnecessary medication that resulted in the death of two patients[...]

National Poll Finds More Than One-Third Of Americans Give Nursing Homes D+ For Quality Of Care

September 14, 2023

A national survey conducted online from July 5 to July 24, 2023 by West Health and Gallup, Inc. found that 36% of the respondents gave nursing homes in the United States a “D” (poor) rating for quality of care; 6% gave them an “F” (fail); 33% grade nursing homes as satisfactory (C”[...]

Contaminated Sandwich Caused Nursing Home Resident’s Death

June 20, 2023

Contaminated Sandwich Caused Death: A lawsuit filed against a California nursing home on April 18, 2023 in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Clara alleges, in part: Richard Van Truong (“Decedent”) was an adult person and resident of San Jose, CA. He was born o[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Ohio Nursing Home Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Resident Died After Tracheostomy Tube Removed

October 22, 2022

Lawsuit Claims Resident Died After Tracheostomy Tube Removed: After caring for her husband at home for more than 20 years after he suffered three strokes and an aneurism two years after they were married in 1990, Luana Mowery could no longer provide her husband with the level of care he needed and t[...]

Ohio Nursing Home Resident Died After Accidentally Setting Himself On Fire While Smoking A Cigarette

May 1, 2019

On April 17, 2019, a 63-year-old Ohio nursing home resident accidentally set himself on fire while smoking a cigarette while sitting in his wheelchair in front of the nursing home. The man was using oxygen at the time of the incident. The police arrived on the scene after receiving a frantic 911 cal[...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

April 28, 2019

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 12, 2019, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Two (“California Appellate Court”) addressed the purported arbitration agreements presented to a California nursing home resident’s daughter at the [...]

Proposed Florida Law Would Create Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams

April 13, 2019

Florida Senate Bill 452, if signed into law, authorizes the establishment of elder abuse fatality review teams, composed of volunteer members, in each of the 20 judicial circuits in Florida. The teams would review closed cases of fatal incidents of elder abuse and make policy and other recommendatio[...]

Six Children Have Died From Adenovirus At New Jersey Nursing Home

October 24, 2018

The New Jersey Department of Health (“Department”) announced on October 23, 2018 that six children in a New Jersey nursing and rehabilitation facility have died from an adenovirus that has sickened eighteen children. The New Jersey nursing home cares for long-term-care pediatric patients[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Based On Equitable Estoppel

June 12, 2018

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) refused to enforce an arbitration agreement in a New Jersey nursing home wrongful death action. In its unpublished opinion filed on May 21, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Court held that there is no eviden[...]

98-Year-Old Florida Nursing Home Resident Died After Being Left Outside In The Sun

June 11, 2018

A 98-year-old Florida nursing home resident who was outside in the hot sun for an unknown period of time on May 27, 2018 was found unresponsive with a temperature of 103.2 degrees. She died two weeks later in the hospital from hyperthermia caused by exposure to the sun. An investigation by the Flori[...]

3 Ohio Nursing Home Aides Indicted For Resident’s Death

May 21, 2018

Earlier this month, an Ohio grand jury indicted three nursing home aides in connection with the death of an elderly resident who wandered off from the nursing home where the aides worked. Four employees of the nursing home were terminated after the incident. The 76-year-old nursing home resident had[...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Arbitration Of Nursing Home Claims

March 18, 2018

In its decision filed on February 26, 2018, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed the order of the trial court that denied the defendant nursing home’s petition to compel arbitration as to the[...]

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