Personal Injury Law

Nursing home patient's wound infected with maggots; three employees sentenced
Three employees of a Pennsylvania nursing home have been arrested and sentenced to probation and fines after an investigation of nursing home abuse and neglect. The former nursing director, the facility's former administrator and the manager of the nursing unit were arrested after 50 maggots were discovered in a resident's head wound...

Nursing Home Voluntarily Closes after Five Months on Federal List of Worst Nursing Homes
A nursing home has closed its doors voluntarily after five months on a federal list that catalogues the worst nursing homes in America. The federal list contains nursing homes that have repeat violations and that routinely lag behind federal standards...

Nursing Home Abuse on the Rise- 36% of Nursing Home Workers Have Witnessed Resident Abuse. How to Prevent Your Loved One from Becoming a Nursing Home Abuse Statistic
According to the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, a full 36% of nursing home workers interviewed said that they had witnessed other employees physically abuse residents...

Nursing Home Residents' Rights & The Ombudsman Program
When you or a loved one is admitted to a nursing home in Massachusetts, either for short term rehab, or a long term stay, you should know that every nursing home resident has rights, and every nursing home has an...

Nursing Home Rating Scale
The quality of care rendered in nursing homes has always been of interest to me. In addition to representing victims of traumatic brain injury, De Caro Kaplen, LLPalso represents victims of nursing home abuse including patient?s who have sustained decubitus ulcers (bed sores), falls and brutality in nursing homes...

Nursing Homes Bow to Big Money
Authored by: John M. Cooper A disturbing trend is emerging across the county regarding the quality of care and treatment that nursing home residents are receiving from nursing home operators...

Nursing Homes
Types of Retirement Facilities and Payment Options

House Closing
Sealing a home sale

Nursing Homes
Many state agencies have reported incidents of negligent care of nursing home residents resulting in death.

Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit
Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit

$11,000,000 Verdict Awarded in Nursing Home Wrongful Death Suit
$11,000,000 Verdict Awarded in Nursing Home Wrongful Death Suit

Skilled Health Care Faces $670 Million in Damages over Nursing Home Violations
Skilled Health Care Faces $670 Million in Damages over Nursing Home Violations

Nursing Home Abuse
New Data Made Public

Champaign County, IL
$19,000 settlement reached in troubled nursing home suit.