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Posted on Oct 13, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
When you place your loved one in a nursing home, you expect that the best care will be provided. Sadly, that is not always the case. Each year there are dozens of nursing home negligence cases that ...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
Since nursing home negligence has been featured in newspapers across one state recently, a victim advocate group is petitioning the state legislature to avoid further abuses. The group is asking ...
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Posted on Jul 13, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
Although most of us think about nursing homes as peaceful places where the elderly are taken care of, this is not always the case. More and more cases of nursing home negligence are making their way ...
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Posted on Jun 9, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
When your loved one is in a nursing home, you want the absolute best care. However, the sad truth is that nursing home negligence does happen, making it your duty to be observant of your loved ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
Deciding to put your loved ones in a nursing home can be a difficult decision; learning that they have become victims of nursing home negligence is just horrifying. If you believe that your loved one ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
If you are concerned that a loved one is the victim of nursing home neglect , there are certain signs you can look out for. Although the types of neglect are long and complicated, the following abuses ...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
After falling down a staircase to her eventual death, the family of 89-year-old Carrie Delay is now seeking legal action. Delay was a resident at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's nursing ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
Police are now studying the surveillance camera footage showing the attack of an elderly woman in a nursing home. According to CBS 2's Josh Landis the video is impossible to understand and hard to ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
A family in Akron, OH was awarded $1 million for the wrongful death of 69-year-old Robin Volpe. The jury found that Heather Knoll Retirement Village in Tallmadge was responsible for Volpe's death in ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Cynthia Hill, 47, is being charged with nursing home abuse after stealing the identities of three of her patients. Officers with the Collinsville Police Department began their identity theft ...
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Posted on Nov 5, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A jury took one day to deliberate in the trial of a long-time resident of Retama Manor in a case of nursing home negligence . They found that the nursing home staff were responsible for the severe ...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In the city of Albert Lea, the Associated Press has reported that a second former aide debt stands accused of sexually and psychologically humiliating residents at a local nursing home has entered ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A Napa couple facing trial for elder abuse allegations have postponed entering a plea while attorneys consider whether a transcript of testimony should remained sealed for the duration of the trial. ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In Portland, Maine, it was reported that a local nursing home is being fined $10,000. The nursing home received the fine after maggots were found on one of its residents. According to reports, the ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Skilled Healthcare Group Inc., a nursing home operator, has agreed to pay out a $50 million settlement for a class action lawsuit. The settlement is much less than the $670 million a jury had ...
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Posted on Aug 12, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In Chapel Hill, regulators announced this week their plans to fine a local nursing home where a nurse stands accused of overmedicating patients with the drug morphine. According to North Carolina ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In Ohio, it is reported that a former assisted living facility worker has withdrawn her guilty plea and will now stand trial. The worker, Iindia Weatherly was accused of nursing home abuse after an 87 ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
The family of a man killed by a morphine overdose has been awarded nearly $5 million. The victim, Burr Needham, was checked into Mercy Memorial Nursing Center in April 2002 to receive physical therapy ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
This week, police arrested a 43 year old man by the name of Randolph Stein for elder abuse . Police say that Stein had punched his 75 year old father in the face, prompting his arrest for assault. On ...
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Posted on May 26, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In the state of California, a former caregiver at a nursing home was convicted of elder abuse and torture. The defendant, 22 year old Cesar Ulloa, was accused of torturing patients who suffered from ...
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Posted on May 20, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
According to NBC news, the conditions discovered after surprise investigations in an Illinois nursing home were found to be not only disgusting, but deplorable. The state decided to conduct an ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Included in the healthcare bill recently approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama is the creation of two new acts designed to better protect and serve seniors living in nursing home ...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Last week, state officials launched an investigation to determine why residents at a Chapel Hill nursing home tested positive for pain medication they should not have been taking. A team from the ...
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Posted on Jan 29, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
WWAY NewsChannel 3 investigated claims that Glencare of Wilmington , an assisted living facility, has been providing substandard care. Here is what they found: The staff failed to provide adequate ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
The term "nursing home abuse" refers to more than just physical abuse. Nursing home abuse is a broad term applied to all forms of abuse, including: Physical abuse : Any time a nursing home staff ...
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