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One of the sneaky tricks that health care officials do is bind their patients and their families into arbitration agreements. Nursing homes are especially bad about this. What an arbitration agreement does is forbid the two parties from hearing about an abuse situation in court. Instead, it gets settled in private through an arbitration committee. …

It’s a common complaint from business owners that too much regulation stifles them, but when it comes to nursing homes and other health care facilities, that regulation can be the difference between the life or death of a patient. Which is why it’s shocking that Kentucky’s nursing home industry is demanding less oversight from state …

Medicine is an inherently risky business. Medical professionals want to do things that are in the best interests of the patient, but many cures often come with side effects that can compromise quality of life. Many people feel this after they take the flu vaccine. They may feel mildly sick for a day or two …

Many of the injuries and indignities that someone can suffer in a nursing home don’t come from the staff. Resident-on-resident abuse is surprisingly common. One of the roles of the staff is to prevent this from happening as much as they can, but just like the teachers in a school they can’t be everywhere at …

Part of the role of a personal injury attorney is to assess whether or not a case is present. Our study of law and our experience in the courtroom helps us to decide whether it is possible to win a case. Not every case can be won though. Here is an example of a nursing …

Why do nursing homes commit so much abuse? A lot of it can rest on the shoulders of profit. Medicare treatment provides a large cash cow to nursing homes. Used judiciously, it can help people who couldn’t afford medical care to get it. But some companies send fraudulent bills or perform unnecessary services on patients …

Elder abuse doesn’t have to be physical or emotional to qualify. It can also be financial. A shocking case right in our home town shows just how far a caretaker can go to mess with a patient’s financial life. Luckily, the perpetrator was caught and is now going to federal prison. The nursing home adminstrator, …

The rules that control whether or not a nursing home gets federal funding are contained in the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act. A family tried invoking that act while seeking compensation for a medical malpractice case, but they were denied. The incident was that a resident at a nursing home who was a known elopement …

No nursing home is ever completely perfect, but there is a certain standard of care that must be maintained in order for a facility to receive public funds. Inspectors regularly go to nursing homes to find out if they are meeting the standard of care. If not, they let them know what went wrong, what …

It sounds like a story out of a movie, but it’s happening right now in New York. A real estate developer is accused of mistreating elderly patients in a facility he bought as part of a development project. An attorney who is handling several pending wrongful death lawsuits against the developer wants to stop the …