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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want To Restrict Nursing Home Malpractice Damages
The Pennsylvania House narrowly passed a bill this week that would restrict the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded as a result of nursing home neglect or abuse. Passed by a vote of 103 to...
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result...
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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!
Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first...
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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the...
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Connecticut Nursing Home Fined $510 For Resident’s Choking Death
Just how much is a Connecticut nursing home resident’s life worth? The answer may be $510, according to the fine imposed on a nursing home by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) that...
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Study: Improving Economy Associated With Rise In Nursing Home Deaths
A recently published research study by a well-respected nonpartisan research group operating under a grant from the Social Security Administration found that during improving economic times when...
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Las Vegas $4.5 Million Arbitration Award For Nursing Home Claim
A medical malpractice case filed against a Las Vegas, Nevada nursing home that alleged that medical malpractice and abuse at the nursing home led to the death of a resident has resulted in an...
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Four Connecticut Nursing Home Choking Deaths In Three Months
Four Connecticut nursing home residents have died due to choking between February and April, 2012. The last case occurred on April 18, 2012, when a resident who suffered from dementia and needed to be...
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Chicago Nursing Home Verdict
On March 20, 2013, a Cook County jury returned its verdict in the amount of $842,801 in favor of an 87-year-old resident of the Kenwood Healthcare Center in Chicago who had fallen at the nursing home...
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Arkansas $5.2 Million Nursing Home Verdict May Be Uncollectible
On May 16, 2013, a medical malpractice jury in Faulkner County, Arkansas returned a unanimous verdict against a local nursing home in the amount of $5.2 million after determining that the nursing home...
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