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Sun Towers Retirement and Rehabilitation Legal Issues Located at 101 Trinity Lakes Drive, Sun City Center, Florida 33573 in Hillsborough County, Sun Towers Retirement Community is an assisted living facility that provides a range of elderly care services. Sun Towers offers independent living, assisted living, extended congregate care and memory care services. The legal licensee...

The coronavirus challenges facing the skilled nursing facility industry are unprecedented. Shockingly, a recent McKnight’s survey confirms that most nursing homes are short staffed and lacking personal protective equipment during this crucial time period in battling the COVID-19 outbreak. As discussed in prior posts, insufficient infection control measures may be grounds for a coronavirus lawsuit...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has strongly condemned Atria Willow Wood’s coronavirus prevention response, claiming the facility’s inaction caused the wrongful death of residents. The Florida Governor has even gone so far as to say the Broward County assisted living facility’s reaction to COVID-19 may be considered ‘criminal’. Our Florida nursing home abuse lawyers detail the...

Can a Nursing Home Implement a Facility-Wide Lockdown? Across the country, nursing homes are restricting access to visitors due to the coronavirus outbreak in long term care facilities. COVID-19 is particularly dangerous to the elderly, infirm residents in nursing homes. Additionally, because of the close quarters of a skilled nursing facility or assisted living facility,...

Coronavirus Nursing Home Lawsuit: Suing a Nursing Home in a COVID-19 Wrongful Death Lawsuit Updated 8-5-2020. Coronavirus (COVID-19) is reaching pandemic levels and disproportionately affecting elderly patients. In most frail nursing home residents, corona virus can be lethal. Our nursing home neglect attorneys explain coronavirus prevention, corona virus detection, as well as liability stemming from...

Banyan Place Assisted Living Lawsuits and Legal Issues Banyan Place is a for-profit, 125-bed facility located at 2950 NW 5th Avenue, Boca Raton, Florida 33431. Since June 2014, the facility has been owned/licensed by Banyan Realty BR, LLC. The facility offers a variety of activities for their residents as well as audiology, memory care, occupational...

New York Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing’s Legal History This 280-bed nursing home located at 26-13 21st Street in Astoria, NY 11102 has not received the best reviews from the New York State Department of Health. It has only received an overall rating of two out of five stars, and the Department of Health has...

Is your loved one a fall risk in a nursing home? Wondering what those padded foam cushions are next to their bed? They are floor mats and they are critical to protect your family member if they fall out of the nursing home bed. State Laws and Regulations Require Nursing Homes to Stop Patient Falls The...

New York is a diverse state which offers aggrieved plaintiff’s 62 counties to file their nursing home abuse lawsuit. However, as the recent 2020 US Law map details above, not all of New York’s counties are favorable to Plaintiff’s. In fact, despite being a blue state, most of New York’s 62 counties are more favorable...

Top Counties to Try an Injury or Wrongful Death Case in Florida Below are some of the most conservative and the most liberal counties in Florida to try a civil injury case. Traditionally, liberal counties are more favorable to plaintiffs (the injured party). Most of the large, multi-million Florida plaintiff jury verdicts we read about...