Ask An Expert: How Common Is Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse?
Ask An Expert: How Common is Nursing Home Abuse? As an attorney who represents nursing home patients and their families, I am often asked the important question: “how...
Indiana Law Protecting Deadly Nursing Homes Challenged
ROCHESTER, IN– The family of a patient of Life Care Center of Rochester who died after suffering a serious head injury has filed a nursing home neglect and wrongful death...
Complaint Filed Against Indiana Nursing Home Alleges Neglect and Wrongful Death
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA — The family of a former patient of the Chase Center nursing home facility has filed a “proposed complaint” with the Indiana Department of Insurance alleging negligence and...
Complaint Filed Against Garden Villa Health Nursing Home After Patient’s Femur Broken During Catheter Insertion
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA – The family of a former patient of the Garden Villa nursing home facility has filed a proposed Complaint with the Indiana Department of Insurance alleging negligence and...
Complaint Filed Against Grace Village Nursing Home After Patient Suffered 15 Falls And Died From Head Injury
The complaint alleges that records related to the patient’s final fall are “disturbingly suspicious and lacking in detail.” According to the complaint, after the patient was taken to the emergency...
Complaint Filed Against Kokomo Nursing Home After Patient Dies From Traumatic Head Injury
The family of an Indiana man who died after being admitted to a Kokomo nursing home has filed a “proposed complaint” with the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) alleging nursing...
Why Bother Suing Bad Nursing Homes?
As lawyers who represent patients and families devastated by nursing home neglect and abuse, we are sometimes asked: “Why bother suing nursing homes? … Their patients are already old and sick. It’s not as...
Indiana Nursing Home Aide Accused of Sexually Assaulting Multiple Patients Gets No Jail Time
According to court records and multiple news reports, Austin Gough, age 20, had been charged with three counts of sexual battery and three counts of attempted sexual battery as a...
The Problem of Pain Medication Theft in Nursing Homes
There is a wide-spread and growing problem of nursing home employees stealing pain medications from the patients they are being paid to care for. The industry likes to call this...
Another Indiana Nursing Home Aide Charged with Felony Voyeurism After Videotaping a Patient In The Shower
According to recent reports from the South Bend Tribune, a Michigan City nursing home certified nursing assistant has been charged with voyeurism, which is a felony, and distribution of obscene...