A 92 year-old nursing home patient has been left with an anti-biotic staph infection after doctors discovered an infestation of 57 maggots in the woman’s ear. Her family has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago-area nursing home. To learn more, read there. . . Family Files Lawsuit against Chicago Nursing Home after 57 Maggots Discovered…
What Happened Find out why tort reform law in Wisconsin has got baby boomers and their families seeing red. Is it possible that the state passed a law that makes records inadmissible in criminal cases against health care providers accused of neglecting or abusing patients? CT
An attorney with the Shapiro, Washburn & Sharplaw firm recently wrote about a West Virginia Supreme Court’s decision to allow an estate to file a wrongful death lawsuit against a nursing home accused of neglect. While an arbitration agreement was required by the nursing home, the court has declared it invalid. To learn more, read…
What Happened: A recently released report revealed that 20% of all nursing home residents in the United States had been given antipsychotic medications, typically for off-label uses. The study was done of a very large sample of patients, more than 1 million nursing home patients that were given drugs by Omnicare, the nation’s largest long-term…
A woman has filed a lawsuit against a West Virginia nursing home that, she says, was responsible for the death of her elderly father. The suit says that the pattern of poor care, neglect and abuse given to her father at the facility caused his physical condition to rapidly deteriorate and he died. To learn…