As those who follow nursing home-related disputes in the news can attest, the most common excuse you're likely to hear when an accident occurs is, bottom line, a complaint about money. When a resident is injured in a fall and lays unattended to for a long period of time, the likely excuse is that the facility lacked the money to hire enough workers -- same for residents suffering horrific injuries from bedsores. When Read More

One of the most common issues that come up in dealing with nursing home abuse and neglect cases -- indeed, one of the things that compels many plaintiffs to file suit on behalf of a loved one -- is the desire to stop senseless and avoidable tragedies from happening again. Unfortunately, however, mistakes tend to have a way of repeating themselves. That is why it was encouraging to see the press release on behalf of Read More

As if the nursing home industry needed any more negative publicity, a story recently broke regarding a former employee of an Edwardsville nursing home. While on its face, the article appears to detail a lawsuit filed by a former nursing home employee that alleges she was fired after filing a workers' compensation claim, there is also tucked away at the bottom of the article the following allegation: The suit also Read More

The headlines in newspapers and websites across the country are often filled with troubling and heartbreaking stories of what can happen when under-staffed and under-funded nursing homes let resident safety and dignity fall by the wayside. In a shutter-inducing story out of Florida, the federal government is mulling a lawsuit against a Florida nursing home where children with special needs -- even infants -- are Read More

As recently reported, a county-run New York nursing home has agreed, along with several other companies, to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of a 90 year-old nun that died after a 200 pound dresser fell on top of her. As the article explains in detail, the nun, who was a resident in the nursing home, suffered a fractured skull after a freestanding closet came crashing down while she was allegedly reaching for Read More

Medicare and Medicaid funding (or potential lack thereof) has been one of the more prominent topics this election season on both national and local levels. In Illinois, and many other states, advocates on behalf of nursing homes and management companies have cited to dwindling Medicare and Medicaid funding as justification for their inability (or perhaps unwillingness) to meet proper staffing requirements and provide Read More

In a very bizarre and tragic story out of California 2 nursing home residents have died and 4 others have been hospitalized from alleged food poisoning after a caregiver placed what turned out to be poisonous wild mushrooms into a soup that was then served to residents. As the article suggests, an initial investigation into the situation has concluded that no foul play was involved and that the caregiver didn't know Read More