State begins paying $16 million to settle nursing home lawsuit (access required)

Published: August 20, 2010
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Maryland has started repaying $16 million to nursing homes and nursing home residents as part of what attorneys called the second-largest class-action settlement in the state’s history.

Skilled Healthcare seeks mistrial on damages award (access required)

Published: August 16, 2010
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Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. asked a California judge to declare a mistrial or order a new trial over a jury’s $677 million damages award for claims the company improperly staffed its nursing homes.

Nursing home operator faces $671M in damages (access required)

Published: July 12, 2010
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Nursing home operator Skilled Healthcare has been ordered to pay more than $671 million for failing to provide adequate staffing at its assisted-living facilities.

Nursing home arbitration clause may be enforceable (access required)

Published: April 22, 2010
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A plaintiff could not avoid arbitration of a wrongful death claim against a nursing home based on a state law prohibiting the waiver of jury trial rights, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled.

Nursing homes, family settle wrongful death suit  (access required)

Published: March 12, 2010
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A Missoula, Mont. family and two nursing homes have settled a wrongful death lawsuit that claimed adequate health care was not provided to an elderly man who died of a blood infection.

NYC nursing home to pay $19M for patient neglect (access required)

Published: December 29, 2009
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A Brooklyn, N.Y., nursing home will have to fork over nearly $19 million in damages to the family of a 76-year-old patient neglected so badly that he left with more than 20 bedsores. The massive award, handed down by a Brooklyn jury earlier this month, is the first in the state against a nursing home that includes punitive damages, lawyers said.

Power of attorney includes ability to agree to arbitration (access required)

Published: November 18, 2009
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A person possessing a power of attorney may lawfully sign an arbitration agreement on behalf of an incapacitated patient, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled.

Nursing home can’t arbitrate negligence claim (access required)

Published: October 23, 2009
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A nursing home couldn’t demand arbitration of a negligence lawsuit based on language in an admissions form signed by the plaintiff on behalf of his mother, the Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a dismissal.

N.M. court overturns $53M nursing home award (access required)

Published: August 18, 2009
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The New Mexico Court of Appeals has overturned a $53 million award to the family of an Albuquerque woman who died in a nursing home.

Nursing home can be sued under §1983 (access required)

Published: July 1, 2009
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A county nursing home can be sued for violating an elderly resident’s civil rights by failing to ensure quality care in accordance with federal Medicaid standards, the 3rd Circuit has ruled in reversing a dismissal.

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