Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — the Paradox of Punitive Damages under the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act

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An interesting story recently unfolded in West Virginia, where the State Supreme Court prepared to undertake a review of potential caps on punitive damages against nursing homes following a trial where a jury awarded $91.5 million after a nursing home resident allegedly died of complications from dehydration and neglect. The report indicates that the jury…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Colorado Jury Awards Significant Damages in Bedsore Case

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A jury in Colorado awarded a $3.2 million verdict to the family of an 88-year old nursing home resident that died due, in large part, to complications stemming from a bedsore approximately the size of a baseball. Bedsores, or “pressure ulcers” as they are commonly known, are one of the more common causes of nursing…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — The Right to Know Your Rights

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A common theme that attorneys representing nursing home abuse and neglect victims preach is that the best way to prepare yourself and your loved one and keep vigilant against potential nursing home misconduct, is to be well aware of your rights as a patient. In addition to a facility’s particular practices and procedures, the Illinois…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Are Nursing Home Organization Experts the Wave of the Future?

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As the old adage goes, if you want to catch a bigger mouse, you need to build a bigger mouse trap. This, it seems, applies just as equally to the law as any other context — and nursing home-related lawsuits are a prime example. Suing a nursing home is a complicated ordeal, no matter how…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Texas Nursing Home Cited After Video of Suspected Abuse Goes Viral

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A local Fox network affiliate in Arlington, Texas has recently “gone viral” with the results of their investigation into suspected nursing home abuse and neglect. All should be forewarned, however, that the story contains a link with a video segment from the investigative report that features video clips of the alleged abuse and neglect caught…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Neglect, and What it Really Means

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As regular readers of this blog are well aware, much of the law comes down to pretty strict definitions and interpretations. That’s why it can often be so daunting in determining whether to pursue a claim for your loved ones for incidents that occur in nursing home facilities. Illinois has a long, exhaustive law on…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law – Recent Legislation May Roll Back Nursing Home Reform

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The State Journal-Register recently conducted a detailed analysis of proposed legislation that unanimously passed the Illinois House of Representatives this year that has many nursing home watchdog groups extremely nervous about the potential for nursing homes responsible for injuries and death of their residents to escape fines and/or punishment from the Department of Public Health.…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Budgetary Concerns Affecting Nursing Home Safety?

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It’s no secret that Illinois is one of the many states that is staring down a rather sizeable budget deficit. Also, as many are aware, “entitlement reform” — issues looking at the manner in which programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are funded — has become a hot-button issue playing a prominent role…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect — Looking Beyond the Numbers

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Unfortunately, negligent acts and poor care while at nursing homes happens at both “good” and “bad” homes alike, and quite often, perception based upon reputation alone clouds reality. Every nursing home eligible to be paid by Medicare (which is to say, almost all of them) is subject to a federally-issued ranking system based on one…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Funding Issue Reaching “Tipping Point?”

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We’ve talked quite a bit lately about the crisis nursing homes across the state are under due, in large part, to the state’s hefty proposed cuts to Medicaid funding and how this has been compounded by Federal Medicare cuts. Ultimately, nursing home reform advocates are concerned that these cuts will lead to facilities reducing their…