A jury compensated a resident and her family for neglect and abuse suffered at Providence Palos Heights nursing home. The $5.5 million verdict is the largest nursing home verdict in Illinois history. The family of patient Bettye Patterson filed suit against owner/operator Providence Operations, LLC, for negligence and wrongful death. The facility admitted Bettye Patterson
A jury found two Western Pennsylvania nursing homes guilty for extensive federal charges related to Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Pennsylvania’s attorney general last year indicted Sam Halper, co-owner of Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness and Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness, on multiple counts. Authorities allege he masterminded a scheme in which staff intentionally inflated worker hours
Jurors Friday handed down a $2.3 million verdict against a Florida nursing home for causing the death of one of its former residents. Redding v. Parklands Facility, Inc., 2022-CA-000311. The resident died in 2021 after a pressure injury caused an infection that spread into both her blood and bones. Claretha Davis was 72 when she
JDSupra reported on the $10 million jury verdict in a novel corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) case. The jury found in favor of a physician hospitalist group that claimed a management company repeatedly broke its promise to comply with the state’s CPOM prohibition, putting profits over patients, among other wrongdoings. The case is featured this
McKnight’s reported on the $2.2 million settlement with patients who suffered abuse at Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco. A 2019 California Department of Public Health investigation had confirmed multiple claims of patient abuse by six former nurses there. A 2021 lawsuit accused those nurses of taking nude photos of residents and
Donna Roland broke her arm in two places after tripping and falling in front of the Lexington County Auxiliary Administration building. Roland sued Lexington County in October of 2020 after she fell while stepping down from an unsafe and dangerous curb leaving the County building. The State newspaper reported the $2 million verdict by a
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