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…
A documented and uncontested history of failure to protect, medicate and feed residents properly led the Virginia Board of Long-Term Care Administrators to revoke the operator’s and administrator’s permit for the man who owns three assisted-living and retirement homes in Hampton, Suffolk and Williamsburg, VA. The Virginian-Pilot named the owner/operator as Scott Schuett, and the…