A jury handed a $43 million wrongful death award to the daughter of a man who died after numerous falls and long-term malnourishment and dehydration at the Moran Lake Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Rome, Georgia (GA). According to an article in the September 3, 2010, Atlanta Journal Constitution, evidence presented at a three-day…
Federal regulators have given staff and managers at the Hancock Geriatric Center at the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia (VA), until the end of September to correct a rash of problems that officials believe led to at least one patient’s suicide and numerous serious slips and falls. If immediate action is not taken, the…
Everyone would like to see health care cost less. With the total annual bill for everything from aspirin bought at the local pharmacy to kidney transplants nearing $3 trillion each year in the United States, federal and state lawmakers have proposed tort reform as a way to reduce spending by health care facilities, practitioners and…
When a nursing home resident falls numerous times and winds up breaking their hip, family members and doctors may grow concerned about the quality of treatment the resident is receiving. Unfortunately, Morris Ellison’s family and doctors were never told Mr. Ellison was suffering so much at Moran Lake nursing home. Moran Lake was operated in…
Finding for the victim in a medical malpractice case, a jury in Arlington County, Virginia awarded $1,894,037 in May, 2010. The medical negligence claim revolved around the failure of a doctor to detect the metastasis of cancer when reviewing CT scan of the man’s lungs. The 70-year-old man with a history of melanoma had been ordered…