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CHICAGO AREA NURSING HOME ALLOWED SEXUAL ABUSE 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

CHICAGO AREA NURSING HOME ALLOWED SEXUAL ABUSE

This sad story comes to us from the Chicago Sun Times. A Lake County-owned nursing home failed to protect an 82-year-old woman resident, allowing repeated, unsupervised visits by a man who later admitted sexually molesting her, a lawsuit filed by her family contends. Duane Stapher, 64, was sentenced to probation last month after he pleaded…

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OKLAHOMA COURT HOLDS NON-COMPETE VIOLATES ANTITRUST LAW 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

OKLAHOMA COURT HOLDS NON-COMPETE VIOLATES ANTITRUST LAW

This is good news! A Tulsa company’s lawsuit against a former employee accused of violating a non-compete agreement has been shot down by the Oklahoma Court of Appeals. The court found the non-compete agreement to be unenforceable and in violation of antitrust law. The ruling in Vanguard Environmental Inc. vs. Misty Lynn Curler was based…

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CASE REPORT: PATIENT SUES LAB OVER FALSE CANCER DIAGNOSIS 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

CASE REPORT: PATIENT SUES LAB OVER FALSE CANCER DIAGNOSIS

Imagine this…you are 35 years old, a single mother, and your doctor informs you that you have lobular cancer! You are scared and worried! Are you going to die? You decide to undergo a double mastectomy to remove the cancer. The next thing you hear is that it was all a mistake – you never…

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FAMILY DENIED TREATMENT 150 150 Dan Frith
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FAMILY DENIED TREATMENT

We have heard rumors about this… Physicians refusing to treat families who have filed medical malpractice cases. We often thought it would be the attorneys denied care first, but sadly, we were wrong. READ HERE. MALPRACTICE FINDING AGAINST WICHITA CLINIC PHYSICIANClinic barred family after suitBY RON SYLVESTERThe Wichita EagleWhen Karie Zimmer challenged one doctor at…

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NON-SOLICITATION AND CUSTOMER LISTS 150 150 Dan Frith
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NON-SOLICITATION AND CUSTOMER LISTS

If you have read our previous blogs you know that we are advocates of the employee in non-competition and non-solicitation disputes. We believe that such agreements should be void as contrary to public policy and a detriment to the free market economy. Our biases aside, we thought we would pass along an article published by…

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WHO TRIED TO INFLUENCE THE COURT OR JURORS? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

WHO TRIED TO INFLUENCE THE COURT OR JURORS?

This is unbelievable! I don’t know which side was “playing dirty” but if the guilty party is ever identified they should be sent to jail! 122 medical malpractice cases had been filed against a former West Virginia osteopathic physician, Dr. John A. King. Separate suits were filed against Putnam General Hospital (at the time owned…

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TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SUSPENDS ADMISSIONS AT NURSING HOME 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SUSPENDS ADMISSIONS AT NURSING HOME

The Tennessee Department of Health has suspended new admissions to the Rivermont Care and Rehabilitation Center in Marion County until it gets its act together! The facility must also must pay a $1,500 state fine and a federal penalty of $4,200 a day until violations are corrected. New admissions may be suspended any time conditions…

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WORK COMPUTERS 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

WORK COMPUTERS

check out www.vlweekly.blogspot.com… A post, and article I read today reminds us, that what we do at work, is not private.Banks v. Mario Industries, employee spends his time at work, drafting a plan, and ideas for a new, competing business. As he has a noncompete, that prohibits this, he is in big trouble! A computer…

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REPORT: FEWER SENIORS LIVING IN NURSING HOMES 150 150 Dan Frith
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REPORT: FEWER SENIORS LIVING IN NURSING HOMES

This is encouraging news! An article in USA Today reports the percentage of elderly living in nursing homes has declined. The downturn reflects the improved health of seniors and more choices of care for the elderly. Approximately 7.4% of Americans aged 75 and older lived in nursing homes in 2006, compared with 8.1% in 2000…

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INFECTION CONTROL IN HOSPITALS 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

INFECTION CONTROL IN HOSPITALS

Great article in Washington Post today – Read it here. “Each year, an estimated 1.7 million hospital patients develop infections, each of which adds thousands of dollars to the cost of treatment. And some patients pay the highest price: Hospital infections kill approximately 99,000 Americans a year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is…

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SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN 150 150 Dan Frith
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SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN

Got your attention didn’t I? Sexual relationships between a medical professional and his/her patient is a “no – no.” Patients can be extremely vulnerable to becoming entrapped into a sexual relationship with their physician. The patient sees the physician as a caring individual with superior knowledge and someone who can help resolve their physical, emotion,…

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VIRGINIA NURSING HOME CHAIN SETTLES SUITS OVER 23 DEATHS 150 150 Dan Frith
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VIRGINIA NURSING HOME CHAIN SETTLES SUITS OVER 23 DEATHS

The families of 23 nursing home patients who died in a bus explosion as they fled Hurricane Rita have settled their lawsuits against the nursing home that evacuated them. Lawyers for the families and for Sunrise Senior Living Services Inc., of McLean, Va., said terms of the settlement were confidential. Brighton Gardens, a Houston area…

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