In April of this year, seventeen workers at a nursing home in New York were indicted on charges of felony neglect. The 300-bed health care facility opened in December 2011, and through February 2014– a little over two years–it had received 119 complaints and incident reports. The facility also had […]
Privacy issues have been in the spotlight ever since Edward Snowden began leaking thousands of highly sensitive documents from the National Security Administration. The ensuing national debate about what should remain private and what should be shared with governmental bodies cast the light further to the growing body of privacy […]
A previous blog discussed the all too common and tragic problem of nursing home abuse and neglect. In this blog, your Denver Personal Injury Attorney will explore what constitutes nursing home negligence, and what to do about it. Negligence in its most basic form is the failure to meet an […]
Elder abuse is typically associated with care in nursing homes and other residential settings. However, the elderly are often abused and neglected outside of institutions; in fact, most incidents of elder abuse take place at home. The great majority of older people live on their own, with spouses, […]
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, two out of forty-four victims of a Hepatitus C outbreak in a nursing home in Minot, North Dakota, filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking unspecified monetary damages and class action status. The nursing home, Manorcare, is the site of the second largest outbreak of Hepatitus C […]
