Virginia attorney general might get new powers to investigate nursing homes 
By:
Peter Vieth
Published: February 14, 2011
Tags: abuse and neglect, elder care, Freedom of Information Act, malpractice, nursing home investigation, nursing home litigation, nursing homes
A bill sailing through the Virginia legislature would expand the attorney general’s power to investigate nursing home abuse and neglect, even in cases where the patient does not receive government assistance.
Skilled Healthcare reaches settlement over staffing case
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: September 9, 2010
Tags: California, class action, inadequate staffing, nursing homes
Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. has announced a $50 million lawsuit settlement over staffing in its California nursing homes, helping it avoid a $677 million damage verdict.
State begins paying $16 million to settle nursing home lawsuit
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 20, 2010
Tags: class action, Maryland, Medicaid, nursing homes
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
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 16, 2010
Tags: California, inadequate staffing, mistrial, nursing homes
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
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: California, class action, inadequate staffing, nursing homes
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
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: April 22, 2010
Tags: arbitration, Federal Arbitration Act, nursing homes, preemption
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
By:
Nora Tooher
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: abuse, Montana, nursing homes
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
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: December 29, 2009
Tags: elder abuse, nursing home litigation, nursing homes
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
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: November 18, 2009
Tags: arbitration, nursing homes, power of attorney, wrongful death
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
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: October 23, 2009
Tags: arbitration, nursing homes
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.
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