I Represent Victims of Nursing Home Negligence

SCOTUS is honoring some precedent. Their decision in Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County et al. v. Talevski is inthe news today, The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to upend decades of precedent and allowed a nursing home resident’s family to sue an Indiana care home under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act for […]

Falls In A Healthcare Setting Can Be Devastating

A three-judge Appeals Court panel reversed a Suffolk County judge’s dismissal of a suit alleging that nurse Orbelina Erazo, physical therapist Lauren O’Hara and their employer, Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital, failed to properly assess the fall risks for patient Elizabeth Owens, which caused her to fall and fracture her hip following hip surgery. Read […]

Gloryland

If you have friends in Gloryland Who left because of pain Thank God up there, they’ll die no more They’ll suffer not again Then weep not friends I’m going home Gloryland, Ralph Stanley, and The Clinch Mountain Boys Trial lawyers become experts in the circumstances just before and after the end of life. Some deaths […]

How Hospice Became A Racket.

There are many ways modern society degrades our right to a dignified death. This is one of them. Good trial lawyers compensate for such injuries. From the New Yorker. How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle The Black Belt, a swath of the Deep South that includes parts of Alabama, has some of the highest rates […]

Med Mal Lawyers With Different Pandemic Takeaways

“Even though things were bad,” said Calora, “it doesn’t give people license to practice beneath the standard of care.” A Washington lawyer observes that the pandemic created a free for all in health care where providers were operating willy-nilly in the face of a poorly understood disease. In my own experience, it was the pandemic […]

Every second, an older person in the United States falls and injures themselves, and every 20 minutes one of them dies from the fall.

Here is the link to today’s story. FAU team receives $1 million grant to identify effective fall prevention strategies for older adults Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are governed by special rules. These rules are separate from the normal statutes and rules applied to doctors and hospitals in medical malpractice cases. You can learn […]

We Are Responsible To Our Elderly: The Greatest Generation

In the end, we all got COVID-19. We were in the first line of fire. But the ones who bore the brunt of the virus were the residents. On April 20, 2020, when I caught it, 63 of the 180 residents at the home had already died. It was total chaos. We were forbidden from referring […]