Costs McKnight’s reported that the average cost of insurance liability claims was lower for skilled nursing settings by more than $20,000 when compared to assisted living in CNA’s annual Aging Services Claim Report. The analysis provides insight into the claims and potential risk factors aging services organizations face. The costs include defense attorney fees, expert
Cleveland, TN-based Life Care Centers of America says it “strongly disagrees” with a recent Georgia verdict. After years of discovery and a lengthy and expensive trial, a jury compensated the victims $15.3 million. Unfortunately, Georgia arbitrarily limits the amount of damages a jury is allowed to award victims of neglect and abuse. The family proved
Medication Errors There has been many articles about the case of RaDonda Vaught. Vaught killed a woman. She was criminally charged, prosecuted, and found guilty by a jury of her peers and fellow citizens. Normal so far, right? The criminal charges include reckless homicide and felony abuse of an impaired adult. But in this case,
A Florida jury found The Palace at Kendall Nursing & Rehabilitation Center neglected Enrique Lozoya. The verdict states his urosepsis was preventable with reasonable care. Urosepsis is sepsis caused by infections of the urinary tract, including cystitis, or lower urinary tract and bladder infections, and pyelonephritis, or upper urinary tract and kidney infections. He had undergone
There’s always a delicate balance between one person’s right to freedom of speech and another’s right to protect their good name. Defamation is a civil wrong or a tort. A defamed person may sue the person that made the statement under defamation law. The Verdict The Island Packet reported extensively on a strange case down
Great news in Florida. Justice for a grieving family. A jury ordered national for-profit chain Life Care Centers of America to pay $12.35 million verdict to a neglected resident and her family. Life Care Centers operates more than 200 skilled nursing facilities in 28 states. The chain is owned and operated by the infamous Forest
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