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Iowa Nursing Home Sued Three Times For Wrongful Death Since 2024

August 7, 2026

Parkridge Specialty Care of Pleasant Hill, Iowa reportedly has been sued three times since 2024 for wrongful death, with the most recent filed in August 2025 by the Estate of Maris Bergis, alleging dependent adult abuse, recklessness, negligence, and wrongful death. The lawsuit reportedly alleges th[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

Medical Malpractice Or Ordinary Negligence? Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Nursing Home In Choking Death Case

August 3, 2021

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) stated in its unpublished opinion dated June 17, 2021: “Turning to plaintiff’s remaining claims, these essentially entail an allegation of negligence premised on the theory that despite defendants’ awareness th[...]

Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals Reinstates Punitive Damages Award In Federal Nursing Home Wrongful Death Case

August 4, 2018

In an unreported opinion filed on August 2, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) reversed the district court’s grant of judgment for the nursing home defendants as to the jury’s award of punitive damages for the plaintiffs, and re[...]

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[...]

Georgia Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Alleges Resident Eaten Alive By Scabies

May 9, 2018

The family of a 93-year-old Georgia nursing home resident alleges in their nursing home neglect lawsuit that the resident was “eaten alive” by scabies over the course of months or years, causing her gruesome and painful death in 2015. The resident had moved into the Georgia nursing home [...]

$450,000 South Carolina Nursing Home Wrongful Death Verdict

April 15, 2018

A South Carolina nursing home negligence jury recently returned its verdict in favor of the family of an elderly resident who died as a result of gross negligence at a South Carolina nursing home. The verdict included $250,000 to compensate the resident’s estate for the man’s conscious p[...]

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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