Nursing homes in Florida and throughout the country are highly vulnerable to what federal officials say is the rapid spread of “nightmare bacteria.” Our Deerfield Beach nursing home negligence lawyers understand that these strains – including the so-called “superbug” that hit the National Institutes of Health a couple years ago…
An 87-year-old woman collapsed in the dining room at the California independent living community where she resided. Our Riviera Beach nursing home negligence lawyers understand she gasped for breath as the nurse on duty phoned 911 for assistance. When the 911 operator inquired about performing CPR on the woman, the…
In nursing homes throughout the country, some 35 percent of patients with advanced cognitive impairment are fed with feeding tubes. However, our Sebastian nursing home negligence lawyers know there are often little proven benefit. In fact, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the American Geriatrics Society recommend…
In Laizure v. Avante at Leesburg, et al., the Florida Supreme Court has held that nursing home patients and their families are bound by arbitration agreements signed in valid contracts – even in cases where a family member plaintiff, who never signed the agreement, wants to bring a wrongful death…
For tens of thousands of people across the country, kidney dialysis is a life-saving treatment without which they would surely perish. However, our Davie nursing home negligence attorneys know that the treatment is expensive, and too often patients are put at grave risk. A report from investigative news site ProPublica…
So often when our Pembroke Pines nursing home negligence attorneys are talking to doctors, it’s in the form of a deposition or questioning them in open court about an oversight or inadequacy. These are the people we expect and hope will look after our loved ones as if they were…
Occasionally when you’ve gone to visit your loved one, you may have seen medical students practicing their rotations, particularly if they are preparing to enter geriatric medicine, where there is an increasing demand in coming years with aging baby boomers. Our Boca Raton nursing home negligence lawyers wouldn’t be surprised…
Families of Florida’s disabled children whose medical needs are incredibly complex should no longer have to worry that they will be forced to send the child to an ill-equipped nursing home. At least, as our Fort Lauderdale nursing home negligence attorneys understand it, that’s the goal of new state reforms…
Lake Worth Manor, the Florida nursing home that late last year was ordered to pay $2 million to the family of a patient who died due to staffers’ neglect, has been denied an appeal requesting a new trial. Our Lake Worth nursing home abuse lawyers are familiar with many instances…
Flu season rolls around every year like clockwork, and many people view it as an uncomfortable inconvenience in which the worst side effect is having to miss a few days of work. However, our West Palm Beach nursing home negligence attorneys know that for elderly and ill people living in…