Uninsured Nursing Home Found Guilty of Elder Abuse Declares Bankruptcy Before Jury Returns With Damages
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 of San Marino Manor, Inc., cavalierly advised the trial court that San Marino Manor had filed bankruptcy. Read More…
$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 & Shadrack 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. Read More…
Phoenix-Area Hospitals Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Bad Business Case
PHOENIX, ARIZ. (June 28, 2011) – Stephen M. Garcia of Garcia, Artigliere & Schadrack and Robert Boatman and Mark Deatherage of Gallagher & Kennedy brought in a $15 million arbitration award, including damages, costs, and attorney fees, with additional interest on the judgment, running at the rate of 10 percent from May 10, 2010 until the debt is paid off, in a business case against St. Luke’s Medical Center in Phoenix, Mesa General Hospital in Mesa, and both hospitals’ general partner, Iasis Healthcare of Franklin, Tenn. Read More…
Elder Mother Found In Back Yard Shed
A 54 year old Florida man has been arrested for elder abuse after authorities discovered his 84 year old mother living in squalor in the man’s back yard shed. The Florida Department of Children & Families is working to fine a safe home for the woman. Read More…
$2 Million in Nursing Home Case
Florida’s Subacute Services Inc. has been ordered to pay $2million dollars for their role in the death of an 82 year old resident of Rockmart Nursing and Rehabilitation. The woman’s daughter brought a wrongful death suit against the nursing home and their management company believing that her mother’s care was neglected. Interestingly, the verdict was only against Subacute and jurors did not hold the Rockmart facility at fault. Read More…
Reactions to Nursing Home Investigative Report
The Miami Herald’s recent expose “Neglected to Death” has prompted many take notice of the nursing home conditions in Florida. The report listed a number of disturbing and unthinkable atrocities in the state’s nursing homes and found that “safeguards once hailed as the nation’s best have been ignored in a spate of tragedies never before revealed to the public.” Read More…
Famous Actor Victimized by Stepchildren
Mickey Rooney, the well known actor, filed for restraining orders against his step children, claiming he and his wife have been victims of elder abuse. He is now 90 years old, but once was an active performer from vaudeville to films opposite Judy Garland. Read More…
Nursing Home Resident Attacked By Alligator
The Miami Herald’s investigation on the state’s nursing homes has unearthed some troubling stories, like what happened in 2004 at The Beckett Lake Lodge assisted living facility. They had a 75 year old patient who suffered dementia and more than once wandered off the premises. Read More…
Nursing Home Operator Ran a “Prison Camp”
Sunshine Acres Loving Care and assisted living facility in Florida’s Panhandle was run like a “prison camp” with condition “not even fit for a dog.” The owner-operator, Bruce Hall would deny resident food and medicine, threaten with beatings, and force tranquilizers. Florida regulators tried to step in in 2004 only to be chased off the premises. Read More…
Nursing Homes Use Antipsychotic Drugs Unnecessarily
Nursing homes are giving antipsychotic drugs to patients who don’t need them, according to a new government report. In a study of Medicare cases, the Health and Human Services Inspector General found that “antipsychotic drugs were given to nursing home residents “unnecessarily” over 300,000 times between January and June 2007.” More than half of those instances were over dose amounts. Read More…