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Just about every state in the country has a law designed to protect consumers where they have been harmed or injured as a result of the misrepresentation of products or services. Virginia has such a statute and it can be found at Virginia Code Annotated § 59.1-196. et seq. In the past, the nursing home…

This one takes the cake. Today I read a case summary of a Minnesota case where a nurses aid yelled the following at a resident (please note, it is profane): “I forgot to put my [f___ing] gloves on and it’s your fault, now you’re going to [s___t] all over my hands you dumb [f___er]. She…

Probably once a week, a family will tell our firm, the “cost” of litigation is too great. What do I mean? Although a family may have what we would call a meritorious case, they do not have the money to pay for experts, court reporters, copies etc. And I understand. I don’t have $25,000 sitting…

We wrote a short blog just several days ago about medication errors and the problems they create for patients and here is living (or maybe dieing) proof! The death of an Illinois woman who was given the wrong medication in a nursing home in February was ruled accidental Thursday by a Tazewell County coroner’s jury,…

A Kanawha County, West Virginia man has filed a professional malpractice suit against the nursing home where his mother was a resident when she died. Billy Skiles filed the suit July 18 in Kanawha Circuit Court, on behalf of the estate of his mother, Barbara Skiles. Genesis Healthcare Corporation, HR of Charleston Inc., and Oakridge…

Confusion over the similarity of drug names accounts for approximately 25% of all reports to the USP Medication Errors Reporting Program, according to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCCMERP). The mission of the NCCMERP is to maximize the safe use of medications and to increase awareness of medication errors through…

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 home care? With the increasing…

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 $200,000 to the center for…

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 affordable health care to more…

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 to ship them to…

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 have laws that make it…

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. Baxter, who suffered from…