Law Firm Resources & News

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…

Today’s Washington Post has a great article from the AP: By ANDREW BRIDGESThe Associated PressMonday, July 30, 2007; 9:51 AM WASHINGTON — The widely used diabetes drug Avandia should be pulled from the market because of heart risks, a federal scientist said Monday.Those risks, combined with no unique short-term benefits in helping diabetics control blood-sugar…

My daily ritual (no matter where I am) is reading the Roanoke Times, my local paper. This morning I was sort of delighted – a call to action in Roanoke. Healthcare where profit is the goal – is that really the best we can do? Joe Kennedy writes “We’ve read story after story about the…

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 § The Seven Deadly…

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 says. “We never seem to…