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Skilled Nursing Facility Negligence

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Effective Risk Management for Nursing Facilities: Insurance Insights on Retaliation Claims

This is the first in a series of articles addressing critical issues in risk management and insurance for skilled nursing facilities. Owners and operators of skilled nursing facilities know that a claim or lawsuit against...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - August 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll on residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities nationwide. Federal and state regulators have bungled their response, failing to safeguard residents. Governors...more

Baker Donelson

At the Crossroads: Legal Considerations Where Government Investigations Overlap with Tort Risk in Long Term Care

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In roughly the seventh week after a majority of states and the federal government issued emergency declarations or "lock down" executive orders, the true impact of COVID-19 is only beginning to be fully transparent. In long...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Skilled Nursing Facility Found Not Responsible For Sexual Assault of 87-Year-Old Resident

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A federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania recently granted the Pavilion at Bradford Regional Medical Center summary judgment, dismissing Plaintiff George R. MacFarlane’s lawsuit...more

Lowndes

Florida Administrative Law Judge Invalidates Governor’s Executive Order Mandating Generators for Senior Housing Facilities

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Last week, an Administrative Law Judge ruled against the governor and state agencies regulating senior housing communities, finding that the controversial emergency order did not address a true emergency and as written was...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Nursing Home Care — Who protects the most vulnerable?

Who protects the elderly citizen? A recent article in Law360 suggested that nursing home claims may rise in the wake of Hurricane Irma and the Hollywood Hills Nursing Home tragedy. The article seemed to downplay the...more

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