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Iowa Nursing Home Resident Declared Dead Found Gasping For Air At Funeral Home

March 24, 2023

Nursing Home Resident Declared Dead Found Gasping For Air At Funeral Home: A 66-year-old resident of the Glen Oaks Alzheimer’s Special Care Center in Urbandale, Iowa was declared dead by the nursing home on January 3, 2023. She was transported to a local funeral home where she was found alive and [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Finds Son Not Authorized To Sign Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement For Father

July 16, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated June 25, 2021, “Because we conclude that Jobe lacked the authority to sign the Arbitration Agreement on Ronald’s behalf, we reverse the trial court’s order compelling arbitration.” The U[...]

Wyoming Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Neglect

July 13, 2019

The surviving wife of a 49-year-old nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit against a Wyoming nursing home, alleging that her husband was neglected before he died. The Wyoming nursing home negligence lawsuit alleges that the man did not have a bowel movement for several weeks and was bathed only t[...]

$7.5M Pennsylvania Nursing Home Sexual Assault Verdict

May 24, 2018

A Pennsylvania nursing home sexual assault jury returned its verdict against a Pennsylvania nursing home in the amount of $7.5 million in compensatory damages after four hours of jury deliberations following a nearly two-week trial. The May 3, 2018 verdict assigned 85% responsibility to the defendan[...]

Premature Deaths In Australian Nursing Homes Increased More Than 400% In Ten Years

June 24, 2017

Research recently published in The Medical Journal of Australia found that deaths due to injury or violence (“external causes”) in Australian nursing homes increased from 1.2 per 1,000 admissions from 2001 to 2002 to 5.3 per 1,000 admissions in 2011 to 2012, which represents an increase [...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Affirms Class Certification In Nursing Home Understaffing Lawsuit

May 27, 2017

In its opinion delivered on May 4, 2017, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) affirmed that the lower court’s class certification was proper with regard to understaffing claims against the nursing home defendants, except for the negligence claims because the nur[...]

Minnesota Nursing Home Faulted For Resident’s Scalding Death

May 14, 2017

The Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Health Facility Complaints has issued an Investigative Report finding a local Minnesota nursing home guilty of nursing home neglect because it failed to provide a safe environment and adequate supervision for a resident who wandered into the facilityR[...]

Investigation Finds Massachusetts Nursing Home Placing Residents In “Immediate Jeopardy” Of Harm

August 18, 2016

A long-troubled Massachusetts nursing home, owned and operated by a long-troubled nursing home chain, has been found to be placing residents in “immediate jeopardy” of harm, leading to the imposition of a hefty fine ($200,000), the freezing of payments from federal health care programs, [...]

South Carolina Appeals Court Affirms Refusal To Compel Arbitration In Nursing Home Case

March 13, 2016

In its opinion filed on March 2, 2016, the South Carolina Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the lower court’s denial of the defendant nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration regarding the plaintiff’s wrongful death and survival action arising out the n[...]

California Nursing Home Sued Twice In 2015 For Deaths Of Two Residents

September 16, 2015

A California nursing home has been sued twice this year for alleged nursing home negligence leading to the deaths of two residents. The first nursing home wrongful death case was filed on July 31, 2015, after the nursing home death of a 69-year-old man, and the second nursing home wrongful death law[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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