Premises liability is an area of personal injury law that deals with injuries a person suffers while on someone else’s property. All landowners, public and private, have a duty through the exercise of ordinary care to safely maintain their premises and to keep it free of foreseeable dangers or hazards. Foreseeable hazards are those that […]
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Nursing Home Abuse Overdose Death
In 2013, a caregiver at a Bloomington nursing home was accused of negligence after an elderly resident was administered fatal doses of morphine. The resident was allegedly administered 20 times the amount of opiate derivative that is usually prescribed for mentally ill patients, resulting in drug overdose and toxicity and eventually the patient’s death. The […]
Kentucky Nursing Home Abuse: Physical Violence
Recently, a nursing home caregiver at Florence, Nadia Ann Freeman, was indicted on second degree abuse & neglect for “intentionally” physically attacking an 89-year-old resident, suffering from dementia. Freeman is charged with “slapping” the elderly woman twice in the stomach, grabbing her arm and causing bruises and tears on her forearms. She is blamed for […]
Kentucky Nursing Home Abuse
A man has filed a Kentucky nursing home abuse lawsuit against the Evergreen Living & Rehab Center in Cook County, alleging negligence on the part of the long-term care facility in giving care to his ailing wife at the facility, which resulted in her death. The nursing home malnutrition lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff’s wife […]
Nursing Homes Alleged to be Demanding Resident’s Stimulus Checks
As if poor nursing home care was not bad enough, NBC News has recently reported that nursing homes are demanding residents turn over their $1200 stimulus checks. As noted: Compounding the hardships of the coronavirus, some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks, a cash grab lawmakers want […]