SAN GABRIEL, CALIF. (Oct. 1, 2011) — An uninsured skilled nursing home operator was found liable yesterday of abusing an elderly resident. After the jury returned a verdict that would have led to a $1.5 million liability and an expected punitive damage verdict in the range of $20 million soon to follow, Erwin Cablayan, shareholder [...]
Tired Truckers Often Cause Truck Accidents
Overtired truck drivers are one of the major causes of truck accidents on our streets and highways. As truck accident attorneys, Garcia, Artigliere & Schadrack have handled many truck accident cases in which overtired truckers resulted in truck accidents and big rig crashes. To combat some of the dangers presented by exhausted truck drivers with [...]
Burglary Ring Targets Nursing Homes
Theft in nursing homes is always a concern, but a band of burglars has taken it to a new level, hitting long-term care facilities in six states. An organized gang of thieves – believed to be all male – dress as female nurses and walk into nursing homes when residents are typically out of their [...]
$1.3 Million Judgment Against Torrance Assisted Living Facility For Elder Abuse
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Sept. 26, 2011) — On behalf of their client, a victim of elder abuse, Garcia Artigliere & Schadrack obtained a judgment in the amount of $1,311,593.67 against the assisted living facility Greenpark Villa, Inc. at 22607 Menlo Ave. in Torrance, Calif. Ruby Walters, by and through her Successor In Interest, Janet [...]
Nursing Home Assistants Get Jail Time for Elder Abuse “Prank”
Five nursing home workers who participated in a November 2009 prank involving elderly dementia patients in a Ukiah, Calif., nursing home have been sentenced. Accused of enacting a prank where they coated 7 elderly dementia patients from head to foot in a slippery ointment so they would be slippery when the staff for the next [...]
Unsafe Mexican Trucks Entering U.S. Pose Great Risk to Unsuspecting Motorists
After years of controversy and dispute, the United States recently reached a landmark agreement with Mexico that will allow Mexican truck drivers to deliver goods anywhere within the U.S. Signed in Mexico City by representatives of the U.S. and Mexican governments on June 29, 2011, the agreement allows cross-border trucking for the first time in [...]
Resident-on-Resident Violence in Nursing Homes
When 81-year-old William Leo McDougall was charged with one felony count of murder after beating his 94-year-old roommate over the head with a metal clothing rod, the case helped to expose a growing epidemic of resident-on-resident violence in nursing homes. Imagine being attacked in your own home and never knowing when it will happen again. [...]
Stability Control Systems to Be Required on Tractor Trailer Trucks
In the latest attempt to keep roads safe for motorists, the National Highway Transportation and Safety Agency is currently awaiting approval on a proposed bill to require stability control systems on tractors. Responsible for 304 deaths and 2,738 injuries a year, rollover and loss-of-control crashes caused by unstable tractor trailer trucks are extremely dangerous. They [...]
Federal “Nursing Home Compare” Website Updated
In a move to help families looking for nursing homes, the federal government has updated Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare ” website. The “new” website revises the old one. Twenty-one new criteria, which help measure the quality of care at nursing homes across the country, are added. The new website allows the government to assess resident [...]
Federal Report Shows 1/3 of Nursing Homes Across the Nation Have Been Cited for Abusing Residents
In 2009 the federal government found that nearly 1/3 of all nursing homes in the United States had received citations for abusing and neglecting their residents. According to the official report, the House Government Reform Committee conducted a search of all abuse violations recorded at nursing homes from 1999 to 2001. It found that a [...]