Category: Nursing home cases in the news

Class action approved against nursing home

A lawsuit against a Fort Smith-based nursing home company can proceed as a class-action suit, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled this week. The court affirmed a decision to grant class-action certification to a suit alleging Batesville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center failed to live up to contractual and statutory obligations to take care of the basic

Hopefully, justice will prevail

Here is an article about a nursing home company indicted in 2004 for the death of a resident. Life Care Centers of America Inc. was finally indicted in the preventable death of an elderly woman whose body was found in her overturned wheelchair at the bottom of the front stairway of an Acton facility. Life Care

Changes in the industry

FREDERICK — For many people, the words “nursing home” bring to mind images of cold tile hallways, greenish room lighting, unattended seniors in distress and a sterile environment that speaks more of an outdated hospital than a home. Some parts of the industry may have earned that reputation, but Cheryl Wright, marketing director for Homewood

$15 Million Awarded in Highway Collision

$42 Million Given Back for over 8,000 Investors

$1.05 Million Largest Nursing Home Jury Award in Spartanburg History

$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

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