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17 Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed Against Iowa Nursing Home Chain In 16 months

January 9, 2026

Care Initiatives, which operates 43 Iowa nursing homes, several assisted living centers, and several hospice locations in Iowa, reportedly has been sued for alleged wrongful death and negligence at least 17 times during a recent 16 month period. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported: Parkridge Specialt[...]

Nursing Home Operator Genesis Healthcare, Inc. Files For Bankruptcy

September 8, 2025

On July 9, 2025, Genesis Healthcare, Inc. (“Genesis”), which operates 218 nursing homes across 19 U.S. states, filed for Chapter 11 voluntary bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, listing 298 affiliates including holding companies, ancillary[...]

Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths

December 31, 2024

The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Rules Trial Judge Improperly Struck Plaintiff’s Expert In Nursing Home Death Case

November 26, 2024

88-year-old Fred Hodnett was a patient at a Pittsylvania County nursing home operated by three entities—Medical Facilities of America, Inc., Medical Facilities of America LIII (53) L.P., and Gretna Health Care Center II, L.P. (“Defendants”). The administrator of Fred Hodnett’s es[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Revives Nursing Home UTI Death Lawsuit

September 11, 2024

Hallie Withem (“Withem”) was admitted to Newark Care in 2012 when she was 85 years old. Throughout her stay, Withem had multiple illnesses including diabetes, urinary retention, multiple urinary tract infections (“UTI”), kidneydisease, incontinence, and schizophrenia. Cognitively, she was al[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Rules Wrongful Death Beneficiaries’ Claim Not Subject To Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement For COVID-19- Related Death

June 20, 2024

Background In July 2022, plaintiff Luann Mikoff, as special administrator of the estate of her late mother Bonnie Stone (decedent), filed a complaint against defendants, Unlimited Development, Inc., and Jerseyville Manor, a skilled nursing facility (Facility), alleging that defendants were responsib[...]

Pennsylvania Nurse Charged With Giving Excessive Doses Of Insulin To 17 Patients

January 11, 2024

The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced on November 2, 2023 dozens of new charges have been filed against Heather Pressdee, 41, a western Pennsylvania nurse, who was previously charged with homicide and attempted murder for patients in her care. Pressdee allegedly administered lethal doses of in[...]

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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

August 17, 2022

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on May 27, 2022, refused to enforce a nursing home arbitration agreement between the defendant nursing home and its former resident because the nursing home arbitration agreement directed that the &[...]

New York Appellate Court States Nursing Home Failed To Establish Entitlement To Summary Judgment In Bedsore Case

December 23, 2021

The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its decision dated November 9, 2021 in a nursing home bedsore case: “Since defendant did not meet its initial burden on its summary judgment motion, there is no need to consider the[...]

$6M Iowa Nursing Home Neglect Verdict

July 10, 2021

On June 17, 2021, an Iowa nursng home neglect jury retuned its verdict against a North Iowa nursing home for the death of an 83-year-old resident in June 2017. The jury awarded the resident’s estate $2 million for pre-death pain and suffering, $1 million for pre-death loss of full mind and bod[...]

New York Appellate Court Overturns $2.5M Nursing Home Wrongful Death Pain And Suffering Award

June 29, 2021

In its Decision and Order dated June 15, 2021, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Ciourt”) stated: “The trial court correctly granted plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict on liability and causation on[...]

Arizona Appellate Court Rules Claim For Fall From Wheelchair Not Subject To Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

February 14, 2020

The Arizona Court of Appeals Division One (“Arizona Appellate Court”) ruled in its decision dated January 28, 2020: “Plaintiffs’ claims are not for “medical malpractice” under the arbitration agreement because pushing a wheelchair from breakfast is not a “medical service”[...]

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