Dan Frith

I am starting to see long term care insurance being pushed everywhere. The insurance carriers play on everyone’s fear that one day we will be alone and without the ability to care for ourselves and how are we going to pay the ever rising costs for assisted living and nursing…

Here is a feel good story! A man left quadriplegic after doctors misdiagnosed his stroke as sinusitis donated $600,000 Wednesday to a Miami spinal cord research center. Allan Navarro won a $217 million verdict against his doctors in October. The two law firms that represented Navarro each donated an additional…

I don’t begrudge doctors for making a good living. The training is long and difficult and the responsibilities they assume are great! However, many health care economists argue that physician salaries must be examined along with prescription drug prices and the high cost of health insurance in attempting to provide…

What do you do when your aging parents need responsive and attentive nursing home care but cannot afford it? How about outsourcing them to India!Steve Herzfeld was exhausted and faced with spending his family’s last resources to put his parents in an affordable Florida nursing home – so he decided…

For the first time in history a nursing home corporation has been arraigned on manslaughter charges. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says Tennessee-based Life Care Centers of America is charged with manslaughter, abuse and neglect in the 2004 death of a woman who lived in their Acton facility. Most states…

An 88-year-old resident of the brand-new St. Barnabas Nursing Home facility located in Chattanooga, Tennessee died after a fall down a stairwell on Sunday. The resident, Frona Baxter, was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell after she rolled her wheelchair down a flight of six steps.Police said Mrs.…

We are happy to announce the above seminar, free to the public, in Roanoke, Virginia on Thursday, August 22 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at the Higher Education Center in Downtown Roanoke (Room 212). The seminar, sponsored by the Frith Law Firm, will cover the following important topics:§ Residents’ Rights§…

Kudos to Iowa Senator Charles Grassley for proposing a new “watch list” for nursing homes that aren’t meeting federal health and safety standards. “That would include nursing homes that yo-yo in and out of compliance by using grace periods to correct deficiencies, but only then on a temporary basis,” Grassley…