Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE Expands Liability Coverage for Assisted Living, Long Term Care Facilities
Apr 21 2015 // ACE Group has introduced four new medical liability coverage endorsements, designed to provide more comprehensive protection to the expanding long term care healthcare sector. The new endorsements include: media event...
San Antonio Fire Crew Unaware Senior Facility Was a High-Rise
Mar 5 2015 // An analysis by the San Antonio Fire Department says the arrival of specialized resources to a December fire that killed five residents of a senior living facility near San Antonio, Texas, was delayed because responders...
More than $1M Awarded in Oklahoma Nursing Home Lawsuit
Feb 24 2015 // The former owner of an Oklahoma City nursing home must pay a woman’s family more than $1 million in damages after staff were caught abusing the woman on camera. A jury recently awarded the three daughters of...
Senior Market Presents Opportunities for Young Agent Specialists
Jan 23 2015 // The graying of America could be a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs, including young insurance producers. As the nation’s population continues to gray, the people who work in the many businesses and...
Lawsuit Filed Against Texas Senior-Living Complex After Deadly Fire
Jan 8 2015 // More than 20 residents at a senior-living complex where a deadly fire occurred have jointly filed a negligence lawsuit in Bexar County against the management company and its owners. The plaintiffs are seeking at least $1...
Colburn Named President of Senior Care Division at MedPro Group
Dec 17 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway’s healthcare liability insurance unit, MedPro Group, has appointed Charles “Chuck” Colburn as president of its newly-formed senior care division. He is based in Chicago. Before assuming...
Nursing Home Liabilities Transfer Could Be Fraud: Judge
Dec 17 2014 // The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of...
K&B Underwriters in Virginia Partners With Freedom Specialty
Dec 2 2014 // K&B Underwriters, a Reston, Virginia-based program administrator and wholesale insurance brokerage for senior living facilities, announced its partnership with New York-based Freedom Specialty for its DigniCARE...
The Long-Term Care Market
Nov 17 2014 // Adults 65 years and older now number 40 million in the United States and that population will grow to 70 million, or nearly 20 percent, of the country’s total population, over the next 25 years. Two factors are...
Young Agents and the Senior Market
Nov 17 2014 // Long-Term Care Represents Opportunity for New Specialists The graying of America could be a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs, including young insurance producers. As the nation’s population continues to...
Report Finds Oversight Of California Nursing Home Chains Lacking
Nov 11 2014 // The California Department of Public Health does not try to determine how nursing home chains compare on key quality measures even though the information would be valuable and potentially life-saving for consumers, a...
More Plaintiffs in Hepatitis C Lawsuit Against North Dakota Nursing Home
Oct 13 2014 // Two more confirmed cases of hepatitis C have been tied to a Minot, N.D., nursing home that’s the subject of a federal lawsuit. The new cases bring the total associated with ManorCare to 47 and add to the list of...
CareRise Granted Third U.S. Patent for Nursing Facility Risk Management
Oct 2 2014 // The U.S. Patent Office has issued a third patent to Tim Goux, CEO of CareRise, a risk management company based in Mandeville, La. The patent further protects the company’s business method to reduce insurance claims...
Oklahoma Legislature Urged to Boost Nursing Home Staffing Rules
Sep 26 2014 // A Seminole woman pleaded with Oklahoma state lawmakers recently to “demand changes in the staffing and other requirements of our state’s long-term care facilities.” “We tried to do precisely that...
Nursing Home Neglect Trial Challenges Shell Company Transfers
Sep 23 2014 // Juanita Jackson died in July 2003, five weeks after she was removed from a Florida nursing home where her family said continual neglect led to multiple bedsores, malnutrition and a fall that injured her head. Trying to...
‘Three-Strikes’ Law Proposed for Nursing Homes in Texas
Aug 18 2014 // Texas nursing homes that thrice commit egregious oversight offenses could be shuttered under a plan proposed by state lawmakers. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended the crackdown at its recent meeting in...
Healthcare Pros Now Offers a Zero Deductible Plan for its Miscellaneous and Assisted Living Programs
Aug 6 2014 // Dallas, TX, 8/6/14 — U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the ninth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that the HealthcarePros division of U.S. Risk...
SCI Underwriting Management Launches Four New Products for Aging Service Industry
Jul 31 2014 // SCI Underwriting Management, LLC, a managing insurance agency with a focus on the aging service industry, has launched four new products for the segment: property (ultimate cover); nursing home auto coverage; crime...
West Virginia High Court Reduces Nursing Home’s $91M Damages
Jun 20 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has slashed by more than half the multimillion-dollar damages a jury levied against a Charleston nursing home in connection with a former resident’s death. In a 76-page divided opinion...
Report: Louisiana Nursing Homes Rank Among the Worst
Jun 10 2014 // The quality of care at Louisiana’s nursing homes is among the worst in the nation, with high rates of bed sores and physical restraints and low levels of nursing staff, according to a state legislative report...
