Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Panel Advances Bill to Limit Nursing Home Partners’ Liability
Mar 7 2014 // Defendants who can be named in lawsuits against nursing homes in Florida would be limited under a bill that moved this week through the House Civil Justice Committee. Developers, silent partners and other parties that...
West Virginia Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of $91M Nursing Home Verdict
Mar 5 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a $91 million verdict against a Charleston nursing home. The Charleston Gazette reported that the justices will hear Heartland of Charleston’s appeal...
Medical Malpractice May Be Back on Kentucky Lawmakers’ Agenda
Feb 10 2014 // Kentucky lawmakers are preparing for another debate on whether to shake up the state’s medical malpractice system, with some influential outside voices joining on both sides of the discussion. A new coalition of...
Kentucky Lawmakers May Debate Medical Malpractice Again
Jan 27 2014 // Kentucky lawmakers are preparing for another debate on whether to shake up the state’s medical malpractice system, with some influential outside voices joining on both sides of the discussion. A new coalition of...
Alabama Family Awarded $400K in Nursing Home Death
Jan 22 2014 // The family of a 101-year-old man who died of pneumonia after being housed in a Montgomery nursing home has been awarded $400,000. AL.com reported that an arbitrator awarded the money to the estate of John A. Garrett on...
South Dakota Panel Endorses Insurance Bills Aimed at Consumer Protection
Jan 21 2014 // A South Dakota legislative panel has approved a package aimed at giving people better protection against unfair practices by insurance companies. The proposals were drafted at Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s request after...
Virginia SCC Seeking Public Comment on Long-Term Care Insurance Rules
Jan 15 2014 // Virginia’s State Corporation Commission is reviewing rules governing long-term care insurance to determine whether revisions are needed. The SCC said Tuesday that it is seeking public comment on the rules. Comments...
Top 2013 Jury Awards: Price-Fixing, Nursing Home Liability, Defamation
Jan 14 2014 // U.S. juries awarded three verdicts of $1 billion or more for the third straight year in 2013, topped by a $1.2 billion award against Dow Chemical Co., the largest ever in a price-fixing case. Second was $1.1 billion...
10 Things to Know About LTC and Assisted Living
Nov 18 2013 // 91% of assisted living residents say they are safer living in an assisted living community than they would be living on their own. (Assisted Living Federation of America’s 2013 Survey of Assisted Living...
K&B Underwriters Hires Senior Living Programs Director in Virginia
Nov 7 2013 // K&B Underwriters, a program administrator and wholesale brokerage serving agents and brokers for senior living facilities, hired Paul Marshall as director of senior living programs. Marshall has 23 years of experience...
Shutdown Sidelines Safety Inspectors of Workplaces, Mines, Nursing Homes and More
Oct 9 2013 // The partial shutdown of the U.S. government has sidelined thousands of inspectors who monitor everything from air and water pollution to safety hazards at factories and the condition of nursing homes. Federal law requires...
Highland Risk Services Partners with Ironshore for Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Sep 11 2013 // Glenview, Ill.-based insurance wholesaler Highland Risk Services announced an exclusive partnership with Ironshore to provide liability insurance for the empirical risk program, which is designed specifically for...
Ironshore, Highland Risk Services form Partnership for Continuing Care Coverage
Sep 10 2013 // Insurance wholesaler Highland Risk Services has partnered with Ironshore to provide liability insurance for the Empirical Risk program, which is designed specifically for continuing care retirement communities...
South Dakota Fines Nebraska-Based Insurance Company
Jul 10 2013 // South Dakota’s Division of Insurance has levied a $325,000 fine against a Nebraska-based insurer for violating South Dakota laws and regulations. It is the largest such fine in South Dakota history, Insurance...
China-Style Eldercare: Kids Can Be Sued For Not Visiting Parents
Jul 3 2013 // What are elderly parents to do when their children no longer bother to visit? In China, there’s a new answer: sue the kids. That’s what 77-year-old “Granny Chu,” of Wuxi, China, did in April. On...
After Fertilizer Blast, Nursing Home Deaths Higher Than Usual
Jun 20 2013 // While the fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas, destroyed much of the nursing home next to it, almost all of its residents survived that first night. But two months after the blast, 14 of the residents...
Connecticut Court: $1M Coverage for Nursing Home Fire Victims’ Families
Jun 11 2013 // Families suing the operator of a Hartford nursing home where 16 patients died in a 2003 fire suffered a setback Monday, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the home’s insurance coverage was $1 million...
South Dakota Gov. Questions Complaint Probes Against Insurers
Jun 6 2013 // Gov. Dennis Daugaard has asked South Dakota Labor Secretary Pam Roberts to review her agency’s procedures for investigating consumer complaints against insurance companies. The move comes after the Argus Leader...
Zurich Programs, Aon Affinity to Cover Non-Profit Long-Term Care Organizations
May 13 2013 // Zurich North America Commercial’s Programs & Direct Markets business has entered into an agreement with Aon Affinity, the consumer, association and group program business of Aon plc to offer coverage to...
Oklahoma Governor Signs Nursing Home Monitoring Bill
May 7 2013 // Families of nursing home residents will soon be able to electronically monitor their loved ones thanks to legislation signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin. Senate Bill 587, by Sen. Ron Justice, will allow nursing home...
