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Massachusetts Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Tribunal’s Finding In Favor Of Defendant Nursing Home

January 15, 2019

In its unpublished decision filed on January 7, 2019, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Massachusetts Appellate Court”) reversed the Massachusetts medical malpractice tribunal’s adverse finding: “the finding of the tribunal is set aside, and a new tribunal fin[...]

Texas Apppellate Court Affirms Nearly $12M Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Verdict Where Series Of Missteps Leads To Paraplegia

November 24, 2018

The Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on November 7, 2018, affirmed a Texas medical malpractice jury’s award of nearly $12 million for a man in his late 70s who entered the defendant Texas nursing home for treatment of a groi[...]

California Appellate Court Rules Nursing Home Resident’s Choking Death Was Not Elder Abuse

September 8, 2018

In its July 12, 2018 unreported opinion, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) ruled that the choking death of a nursing home resident who was given the wrong meal was not “elder abuse” because t[...]

New Federal Data Shows Nursing Homes Had Less Staffing Than They Self-Reported

August 11, 2018

The New York Times reported on July 7, 2018, “Most nursing homes had fewer nurses and caretaking staff than they had reported to the government for years, according to new federal data, bolstering the long-held suspicions of many families that staffing levels were often inadequate.” The [...]

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[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

May 25, 2018

In its opinion rendered on May 4, 2018, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held: ” … [the defendant nursing home] failed to meet its burden of establishing the existence of a valid and enforceable arbitration agreement. The partial agre[...]

$250,000 Pennsylvania Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Death Of 85-Year-Old Resident

December 24, 2017

A Pennsylvania nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $250,000 on December 9, 2017, following a one-week trial and five hours of deliberations. The deceased resident’s family had alleged in their Pennsylvania nursing home negligence lawsui[...]

Delaware Court Refuses To Send Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit To Arbitration

October 10, 2017

The Superior Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Court” ) issued an Order dated August 15, 2017 in which it denied the defendant nursing home’s request that the plaintiff’s Delaware nursing home negligence lawsuit be sent to arbitration, holding that when viewing the ev[...]

Texas Nursing Home Complaints Spike Since Hurricane Harvey

September 13, 2017

We have experienced a spike in inquiries regarding Texas nursing home complaints since Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas in late August 2017. Many of the heart-wrenching complaints involve not only the conditions nursing home residents are experiencing since Hurricane Harvey barreled throug[...]

Florida Nursing Home Sued For Bad Care, Failure To Provide Records

September 9, 2017

A 66-year-old man from Florida has sued a Boca Raton, Florida nursing home, alleging that the care he received at the defendant nursing home was so bad that he had to call his wife in the middle of the night to have her come to the nursing home and bring him home. Once home, the […][...]

Attorneys General Of Sixteen U.S. States Tell CMS They Oppose Nursing Home Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements

August 10, 2017

In a letter dated August 7, 2017 addressed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, on the letterhead of the Maryland Attorney General and signed by the Attorneys General of 16 U.S. states and the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, t[...]

Missouri Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Resident Died After She Was Left In Bathtub For Eight Hours

July 31, 2017

An 88-year-old resident of a Missouri nursing home was found dead in a whirlpool bathtub eight hours after a nursing assistant placed her in the bathtub for her nightly bath. The Missouri nursing home negligence lawsuit alleges that the nursing assistant forgot that she had left the resident i[...]

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