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Nursing Home Neglect Case in Fall

A nursing home neglect case has reportedly been filed in regard to a fall during a lift into a bed. According to reports, it is being alleged that staff members were negligent when they tried to ...

Family Files Lawsuit Over Nursing Home Abuse

A family has reportedly filed a nursing home abuse and wrongful death lawsuit over the disappearance and death of an elderly patient. According to reports, the man was a dementia patient who went ...

Nursing Home Lawsuit Win

A Tampa, Florida law firm has won a major lawsuit in regard to a patient’s death at a nursing home. According to reports, $200 million was awarded in a case where a woman fell to her death while ...

$1.3 Million Judgment in Elder Abuse Case

An elder abuse case has reportedly resulted in a $1.3 million judgment against a Torrance, California assisted living facility. According to reports, the company was found guilty of elder abuse and ...

Lawsuit: Nursing Home Seeking Higher Occupancy Fails Patients, Causes Death

The Birmingham News, from Alabama, has reported that a lawsuit, filed against a county-run nursing home, cites cost-cutting measures that allegedly led to the wrongful death of a patient. The suit is ...

$1.3 Million Judgment Against Nursing Home

A $1.3 million judgment was made against an assisted living facility in the Torrance, California area in regard to elder abuse . According to reports, the elder abuse situation led to a wrongful death ...

Woman Suing for Wrongful Death

A woman in the Winfield, West Virginia area has reportedly filed a lawsuit in regard to her husband's death. According to reports, the woman is suing a nursing home for negligence and wrongful death . ...

Elder Abuse Case May Be Settled

A wrongful death and elder abuse case may skip going to trial and be settled out of court. According to reports, the matter involves two elderly patients, one who died and another who lost her leg in ...

Lawsuit Against Home Claims Neglect

A lawsuit has reportedly been filed against a nursing home in the Cook County, Illinois area claiming that neglect resulted in the death of a resident. According to reports, the wife of the deceased ...

$9.5 Million Verdict in Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit

A Georgia nursing home neglect lawsuit has reportedly resulted in a $9.5 million verdict. According to reports, the wrongful death lawsuit was filed over the failure to treat multiple pressure ulcers ...

Inadequate Care Leads to $3.5 Million Settlement

The Everett Rehabilitation and Care Center, owned by the Sunbridge Health Care Corp. Inc., has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of a deceased 97-year-old man for the inadequate care they ...

Told of GrannyCam, Nursing Home Still Abuses

When a video camera approved for use by a nursing home was often found unplugged, Sean Suh decided to move his grandmother, Kyong Hui Duncan, to another facility. A lawsuit now alleges that Duncan ...

St. Peter Nursing Home Facing Wrongful Death Suit

After falling from the hands of her caregiver, and in front of her three daughters, Esther Rannow, a 91 year-old resident at Benedictine Living Community in St. Peter, passed out into a wheelchair and ...

Nursing Home Pays Settlement in Patient’s Death

A Nevada nursing home has reportedly settled on a wrongful death case. The patient reportedly died from severe dehydration, infection and other complications that occurred at the facility. It was ...

Neglect Cited in Death of 23 year-old Nursing Home Patient

Staff at DFW Nursing and Rehab spent seven minutes deciding whether or not to revive the lifeless Evan Fleming, 23, before they began life-saving CPR efforts, as reported by the Star Telegram in Fort ...

Nursing Home Fails to Prevent Patient Fatal Fall

Merle Fall, a dementia patient in the Ridgeland Pointe Senior Living Community nursing home, died after following through on her threat to jump from a second-story window, as reported by the Clarion ...