Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — More Details Emerge on Nursing Home Legislation’s Bad Bargain

Last year, we spent some time discussing the haggling back and forth in the Illinois General Assembly about what to do about a provision in the Nursing Home Care Act that mandated increased staffing levels for skilled nursing personnel, but held off setting the threshold levels for a later date. Last spring, there was much…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Liability for Owners and Operators

As the recent news stories popping up around the state have made clear, the way in which nursing homes are customarily owned and operated has become an extremely contentious topic. We’ve discussed the way that nursing homes often set up different legal “entities” that shuffle around ownership of the physical building, while others, for instance,…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury and Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse

Two nursing assistants were fired from an Oklahoma Nursing Home for abusing a 96-year old dementia patient. In the disturbing article found here, apparently relatives of the injured patient  — again who suffers from dementia — placed a hidden video camera in their loved one’s room after becoming suspicious that someone was stealing the resident’s…