Appellate Court Finds Nursing Home Cannot Force Arbitration in Wrongful Death...
An Ohio Appellate Court has held that an arbitration agreement signed by the son of a resident at the time of the father’s admission to a nursing home did not justify compelled arbitration. Marcus...
View ArticleNursing Home Pressure Ulcer Case Reversed and Remanded for New Trial When...
The plaintiff, August Bosman, who was the special administrator of the Estate of Joan Bosman, appealed from the denial of his motion for a new trial. The plaintiff argued that the court was in error in...
View Article$30 Million Nursing Home Jury Verdict with Punitive Damages
Martha Pierce, 83, suffered a stroke and became partially paralyzed and weak on her right side. She required additional assistance from her nursing facility, the Allenbrooke Nursing &...
View Article$303,000 Jury Verdict Entered Against Nursing Home In Which Staff Negligently...
Robert Lankford, 69, underwent abdominal surgery. He was admitted to Life Care Center Pensacola for his recovery period. One of the nursing facility’s nurses mistakenly removed Lankford’s skin staples,...
View Article$143 Million Settlement Reached in Nursing Home Chain’s False Claims Act...
Life Care Centers of America, which operates 200 locations and is based in Tennessee, will pay $143 million to settle a False Claims Act (FCA) litigation in which it was alleged that the corporation...
View ArticleState Supreme Court Affirms Overruling of Objections to Motion to Compel...
An appeal was taken from an order entered on June 18, 2015 that denied the motion of the defendants, Manor Care of Carlisle PA, LLC, etc., for reconsideration after the circuit court judge denied their...
View ArticleOutbreak of Bacteria from Intravenous Syringes Injures 52 Nursing Home Patients
Contaminated syringes have been associated with the outbreak of bacteria that infected nearly 150 people since August 2016. Fifty-two of those cases were in New Jersey. According to the Centers for...
View Article$8.47 Million Verdict for Brain Damage to 8-Year-Old Child at Nursing Home
Jacob Saul was born prematurely with neurological deficiencies. He was later transferred to Cambridge Pediatrics Nursing Home for rehabilitation. Jacob remained at the nursing home. At eight months of...
View Article$28 Million Jury Verdict in Nursing Home False Claims and Whistleblower Act...
Two former employees of Momence Meadow Nursing Center, Vanessa Absher and Lynda Mitchell, asserted that Momence Meadows and its owner, Jacob Graff, consistently chose not to provide nursing home...
View Article$150,000 Settlement Reached for Nursing Home Resident Who Developed Bedsores...
Alice Horne was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes. She was confined to her bed at the Lexington Healthcare of Orland Park nursing home. Horne was 82 years old; the staff discovered...
View ArticleArbitrator Awards $975,000 against Nursing Home for Failure to Implement...
Sui Mee Chiu, 85, was admitted to the Arcadia Health Center for long-term care. A member of the Arcadia staff found a Stage I pressure sore on Chiu’s lower back. A care plan was then initiated by the...
View Article$13.2 Million Jury Verdict in Inadequate Staffing Case at Nursing Home
Mary Dwyer was 87 years old when she was admitted to Harbor View Heath Care Center for a short-term rehabilitation after she had surgery. During the following three months, she lost 20 pounds and...
View ArticleIllinois Nursing Home Abuse Cases Should Not be Confused with Medical...
As the baby boom generation ages, the population of nursing homes is also expanding. Elderly Americans and Illinois residents who reside in nursing homes are likely the most vulnerable members of this...
View ArticleReport Shows That Nursing Home Residents Are Found to be Abused in One of...
It is not new that nursing home residents are too often at risk for abuse, neglect and injury in the more than 17,000 nursing home facilities operating in the United States. Too many times these...
View Article$500,000 Jury Verdict Against Hospital for Failure to Prevent Bedsores to...
Salvador Palmieri was 86 when he underwent heart surgery and then experienced complications, which necessitated prolonged hospitalization in his hospital bed. A week after surgery, a nurse noticed new...
View Article$883,000 Jury Verdict for Failure to Prevent and Treat Pressure Sore at Hospital
William Dieser, 58, underwent surgery at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis County, Mo. Several days later, he developed a black spot on his coccyx. The black spot turned out to be a Stage IV...
View Article$650,000 Jury Verdict for Nursing Home’s Failure to Prevent and Treat Bed Sores
Genevieve Thompson, 74, was hospitalized and required assistance with all activities of daily living due to her long list of health problems. One of them included morbid obesity. During her...
View ArticleNational Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Changes Terminology in Pressure Ulcer
On April 13, 2016, a release from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) stated that the term “pressure injury” replaces “pressure ulcer” in the NPUAP injury staging system. According to...
View Article$100,000 Settlement for Nursing Home Resident Whose Bed Sores Went Untreated
Livija Cruse, an 80-year-old woman who suffered from mild dementia, was admitted to Chicago’s GlenCrest Healthcare and Rehab Center after falling at her home. She was also immobile. Over an 8-week...
View Article$1.83 Million Jury Verdict for Failure to Prevent, Treat Pressure Sores at...
Morley Sprague suffered from end-stage multiple sclerosis and had a history of urinary tract infection (UTI) and degenerative joint disease. After a hospitalization for treatment of sepsis and a UTI,...
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