As the Chicago Tribune recently reported, a lawsuit has recently been filed in Cook County against an Arlington Heights’ nursing home after 57 maggots were allegedly found in the ear of a 90 year old Alzheimer's patient. The article alleges that after the maggots were removed from the patient's ear, they were sent to a laboratory and determined to be approximately three days old. Details in cases such as these are, Read More
Injury Cases and Medical Bills
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When injured due to a car accident, slip and fall, dog bite, nursing home abuse and neglect or from near any cause or issue, medical bills create significant issues from multiple respects. Some various and very "high-level" topics are as follows (and much more details and information is available upon request): Health insurance. Your health insurance may outright deny coverage for Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Patient Advocates Suffer Blow as General Assembly Shoots Down Insurance Requirement
As many of our discussions have tackled, issues of insurance are very essential to protecting the rights of injury victims, and while insurance companies seldom willingly pay all of what they should, Illinois' mandatory insurance laws at least make sure there's a system in place to make sure that injury victims have a possibility of compensation. That's why it comes as such a disheartening surprise that the Illinois Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Illinois Nursing Home Advocates Renew Demands for Medicaid Reimbursement Reform
The US Supreme Court announced its long-anticipated verdict on healthcare reform and nursing home advocates are using the spotlight as a chance to renew their demands upon Illinois lawmakers to reform the state's Medicaid reimbursement procedures. Relying heavily on statistics that suggest the state is underfunding Medicaid reimbursements by an estimated $4.7 billion, or approximately $24.34 per patient per day, Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Bedsore Case Yields $900,000 Settlement for Seattle-Area Family
A story out of Seattle details the tragic death of an 87 year-old Alzheimer's patient -- who also happened to be a retired nursing educator -- after a number of untreated pressure ulcers, some of which had "burrowed to the bone," led to her death. Much of this article focused on the reported shortcomings of a unique system that Washington state employees as a state-funded, low-cost alternative to nursing homes (this, Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — An Interesting Model for How to Report Abuse and Neglect
Many of our discussions can, understandably, have the tendency to leave many concerned with the wellbeing and safety of their loved ones in nursing homes a bit disheartened, to say the least. Even if you do notice a situation that disadvantages your loved one, what can you do about it proactively? The standard advice is that if you see something, say something, but say something to who? The same facility that caused Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Vote on RN Staffing Provision
As previously discussed, nursing home reform advocates are up in arms -- and rightly so -- over a proposed law that unanimously passed through the state's House of Representatives that would force already time-strapped Department of Health officials to conduct a thorough review of a nursing home facility's past reported violations before being permitted to issue them a citation in the event of a serious injury or the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Over Twenty Residents Take Ill at Colorado Facility
Interesting, and troubling, news came out of Colorado as 21 residents and 7 staff members were reported ill with the norovirus at a suburban Denver nursing home. Norovirus, though not considered being particularly harmful to humans, causes stomach and intestinal inflammation that can lead to dehydration and, ultimately, hospitalization in the elderly. Although this matter has been reported to the Tri County Health Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Neglect — Lawsuit Filed After Dementia Patient Struck and Killed by Fellow Resident
As the Chicago Sun Times previously reported an Oak Park nursing home faced a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a dementia patient who was reportedly killed after a fight with another resident. As the Illinois Department of Public Health report indicates, the nursing staff apparently failed to witness the incident, as the alleged aggressor walked into the victim's room and an altercation ensued, which, as the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — 5 Charged Relating to Reported Abuse in Tennessee Nursing Home
In an unfortunate story out of a Tennessee nursing home, three nursing assistants were charged with abuse and neglect of a depended adult, while two others were charged with failing to report abuse and neglect. The charges stem from allegations that the nursing assistants sprayed residents with water from syringes -- sometimes while the residents were sleeping, and other times to "agitate" them -- and took Read More
