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Florida’s Nursing Home Lobbyists Sink to a New Low and Beg for “License to Kill” Seniors Recently, a Florida House bill (HB 7) and Florida Senate measure (SB 72) contain COVID lawsuit protections for businesses. However, there is a carve out for healthcare providers, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This means under HB 7...

UTIs May Lead to More Serious Injuries like Encephalopathy in Long-term Care Setting When an older individual decides to move into a nursing home, they likely expect that they will receive the care that they are struggling to provide for themselves—and sometimes they do. Unfortunately, as nursing homes turn their attention to greater profit at...

Florida’s Statute of Limitations on Nursing Home Abuse Claims Many clients contact our firm asking how long they have to file a lawsuit against a negligent nursing home in Florida. The time frame in which you have to file your case is called the statute of limitations. Failure to file your nursing home negligence case...

A San Diego family has been awarded 145,000 in compensatory damages for a fall that occurred at a Santa Martha Residential Care facility. Our assisted living negligence attorneys explain the case facts. If your loved one was wrongfully injured inside a California facility, contact our San Diego nursing home abuse attorney today for a completely...

Indianapolis Area Nursing Homes are in Unprecedented Trouble The Indianapolis Star, a local media agency, conducted an 18-month investigation into the state of Indiana’s nursing home administration—and the results have uncovered widespread fraud, understaffing, and inefficient operation that is having catastrophic effects on the residents who call these facilities home. While Indiana’s overall focus on...

The Plaintiffs in a Baltimore nursing home abuse case were awarded almost $300,000 in a bedsore lawsuit against Manor Care Ruxton in Towson. The prevailing party in the nursing home negligence lawsuit was awarded $82,654.44 for medical expenses, $5,000 for funeral expenses and $200,000 for noneconomic damages, like pain and suffering. Case Facts in the...

2020 was a challenging year in a number of ways. Sadly, seniors living in long term care facilities fared poorly due to corporate mismanagement. Multiple studies have emerged indicating that nursing homes continue to struggle to keep residents safe. Due to coronavirus, dozens of investigations into long-term care facilities’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have...

Recently, the Mary Black Health System (now known as Cherokee Medical Center) settled a patient fall lawsuit for $285,000, plus attorneys fees and costs. The Cherokee Medical Center hospital fall case involved a 76 year old patient suffering from dementia who fell and broke her ankle. Our elder abuse attorneys explain the facts surrounding this...

Nursing Homes are Taking Residents’ Stimulus Checks 2020 has been a difficult year for most people. For many, their hopes to stay afloat hinged on Congress’ promised stimulus checks, which were first distributed in the spring. The average person received more than $1,000 in the first stimulus—if they did not reside in a nursing home....

Located at 139-62 35th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354, Cypress Garden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is a large, 268-bed facility that has received a four-star overall rating by the New York State Department of Health. The facility is affiliated with Excelsior Care Group which owns or operates long term care facilities throughout New York and...