After a 2 week trial in Hendersonville, North Carolina, the jury awarded $800,000.00 to the Plaintiff. Plaintiff was represented by Poliakoff & Associates of Spartanburg, South Carolina. The jury award was $200,000.00 for personal injury suffered by the decedent while a resident at Brian Center – Hendersonville, and $600,000.00 in punitive damages. The Brian Center
I read a great article about the myth of frivolous lawsuits and how insurance companies have created the Stella Awards to mislead the public (and juries) about frivolous lawsuits. If there is so many frivolous lawsuits, why does the Chamber of Commerce and the insurance industry feel the need to make up these ridiculous lawsuits?
A family whose mother passed away two years ago after spending just a month in a nursing home says her death should not have happened then and now they’re asking for help. “She walked, talked, could eat on her own,” said Arnold Trevino, remembering his mother before she checked in,” he said, “when she left
Here is a very interesting story from a resident’s point of view. Billy Bogardus, a retired engineer, said he received poor care while he was a patient in Haven Health Center of South Windsor earlier this year. “You had to beg and plead to get them to pay attention,” he said. Bogardus of West Hartford went
This story really upset me. I can’t imagine the excuses the nursing home will use to explain this neglect away. Florida police began investigating why an 82-year-old man from the University Center West nursing home was so severely neglected, he ended up in the hospital. The man was taken to the hospital suffering chest pains
A nursing home abuse bill, the Elder Justice Act, has been under consideration in Congress but has yet to be passed. Although nursing home and elder abuse are serious and growing problems, the nursing home abuse bill has never even been voted on. While no one in Congress opposes the nursing home abuse legislation, few are
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