Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
10 Things to Know About Long Term Care & Assisted Living
Nov 16 2015 // A 2015 survey of affluent adults between the ages of 50 and 68 conducted by Greenwald & Associates on behalf of John Hancock Insurance found that only three in 10 have actually made a plan to address long term care as...
ProPublica, NPR: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp
Oct 14 2015 // This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission. Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by...
Kentucky Nursing Home Industry Seeks Less Regulation
Oct 14 2015 // Kentucky’s nursing home industry is seeking relief from what it calls heavy-handed state oversight even though a recent review found multiple instances where its residents have been mistreated. The review by The...
Glatfelter Launches Risk Management Tool for Long Term Care Facilities
Aug 27 2015 // Glatfelter Healthcare Practice, an insurance program serving senior living facilities, home health care and other private homecare agencies, and VorroHealth, a provider of clinical, AR/billing and interoperable technology...
West Virginia to Require Criminal Background Checks for Long-Term Care Workers
Aug 13 2015 // West Virginia’s new state program requires criminal background checks for applicants seeking certain jobs at long-term care facilities. Health and Human Resources Secretary Karen L. Bowling announced the launch of...
Labor Department’s 6-Part Test for Classifying Employees, Independent Contractors
Jul 16 2015 // The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a blog post with new guidance on classifying workers as employees or independent contractors under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), an issue that has attracted renewed...
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...
