The $45 million settlement between the New York Attorney General’s Office and Centers for Care LLC is another example of troubling patterns of financial exploitation in the nursing home industry being exposed. Centers for Care, which operates over 30 facilities across New York, and even more facilities across the Northeast United States, misappropriated an estimated
Juries are going “nuclear” by compensating victims with increasing large verdicts against U.S companies. This trend is making insurance policies more costly and harder to come by for those nursing homes that neglect and abuse vulnerable adults. The number of cases where the Jury awards $10 million against corporate defendants, known as “nuclear” verdicts, has
A wrongful death settlement compensated a South Carolina family of a woman tragically killed by gross negligence of Dominion Energy, an electric company, and Comprium, a communications company, for failing to maintain the 70-year-old rotten utility pole. The truck had legal height, authorities said. Domain Energy installed the light pole, and Comporim installed the drooping
A South Carolina jury has awarded $1.4 million in damages in a nursing malpractice case against Prisma Health Children’s Hospital-Midlands involving negligence that caused fatal complications from a baby girl’s premature birth. Apparently the evidence was overwhelming because the jury deliberated for just 35 minutes after a week-long trial that focused on whether the hospital’s
In a nursing home neglect case, the jury heard the evidence and provided a $19 million verdict to compensate the resident and family for the wrongful death. The case specifically targeted the facility, the two different operators, and two corporate owners for neglect and corporate malfeasance. However, after posttrial motions, the judge allowed two corporate