Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2012 Hot Markets: Healthcare Remains a Healthy Market
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature. Healthcare is one of the country’s largest industries. Annual spending on healthcare in the U.S. tops $2.6 trillion, more than 16 percent of...
‘Super Losses’ in Healthcare Sector Growing in U.S.: Hiscox
Mar 13 2012 // The overall cost and frequency of so called $50 million plus “super losses” in the U.S. healthcare insurance sector are on the rise. According to a report from specialist healthcare insurer Hiscox, the large...
K&B Introduces Workers’ Compensation Program
Mar 7 2012 // K&B Underwriters has launched a new workers’ compensation product in collaboration with SeaBright Insurance Co. The carrier will bring a claims handling and loss control program to K&B’s senior living...
Arkansas Supreme Court Hears Nursing Home Liability Case
Feb 17 2012 // Attorneys for an Arkansas nursing home and the man who runs it say they deserve a new trial in a case in which a jury ordered the nursing home to pay more than $5 million following the death of a woman whose estate says...
Illinois Nursing Homes to Get $110M in Federal Aid
Jan 26 2012 // Illinois is getting $110 million from the federal government to improve safety and staffing at nursing homes, Gov. Pat Quinn said. The money is supposed to address poor supervision of sometimes-dangerous psychiatric...
Penn.-based Glatfelter Acquires Faith-Based and Senior Living Programs
Jan 4 2012 // Glatfelter Program Managers, a program business division of Glatfelter Insurance Group in York, Penn., acquired senior living and religious organizations programs from Bunker Hill Underwriters Agency in Houston. The senior...
Drug Tampering Cases Show Gaps in Nurse Regulation in Kansas
Dec 14 2011 // A nurse with a prior felony conviction for forging prescriptions dilutes morphine solutions for five Halstead, Kan., nursing home patients. Another nurse convicted of stealing drugs from patients at an Emporia home gets...
Church Mutual Offers New Opportunities for Senior Living Brokers
Dec 13 2011 // The broker/specialty markets division at Church Mutual Insurance Co. has expanded opportunities for brokers and agents with experience in the senior living market. Specifically, the insurer is looking to add producers in...
West Virginia Nursing Home Challenges $91 Million Jury Award
Nov 8 2011 // A Charleston nursing home is challenging a $91 million damage award in a lawsuit stemming from the death of an elderly woman hours after she left the facility. Lawyers for Heartland of Charleston claim in a recent court...
$91M Damage Award Against West Virginia Nursing Home Upheld
Nov 7 2011 // A Kanawha County, West Virginia judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours...
Kentucky Jury Awards $1M in Nursing Home Fall
Oct 26 2011 // A court in Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled that a nursing home should pay more than $1 million to a resident who was severely injured in a fall in an equipment storage room. Irene Hendrix was in her late 80s and had been...
West Virginia Judge Affirms $91M Damage Award Against Nursing Home
Oct 24 2011 // A Kanawha County, West Virginia judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours...
Obama Pulls Plug on Long-Term Care Plan in Healthcare Law
Oct 17 2011 // The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president’s signature health overhaul law — a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial...
IronHealth Introduces Adverse Health Survey Cost Coverage for Nursing Homes
Oct 14 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has introduced a companion policy for existing insurance clients to complement its suite of professional and general liability coverages for nursing home...
Millennium Brokerage Forms Long Term Care Program Through Physicians Financial
Sep 30 2011 // Millennium Brokerage Group (MBG) has launched a new long term care (LTC) program that will be available to physicians and their families through AMA Insurance Agency’s Physician Financial Partners program. Physicians...
Nursing Home Case Spotlights West Virginia’s Malpractice Damages Cap
Sep 30 2011 // Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state’s Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million jury award should be reduced under the state’s medical malpractice law. In...
West Virginia Jury Awards $91.5 Million in Nursing Home Death
Aug 9 2011 // A jury in Kanawha County, West Virginia has awarded $91.5 million in damages to the family of an 87-year-old woman who died after her stay at a Charleston nursing home. The jury ruled that Heartland of Charleston failed to...
Average Long Term Care Liability Claim Rising: Aon Study
Jun 17 2011 // Long term care liability costs are rising because the average claim size is increasing even as claim frequency declines. There has been a four percent increase in the average claim size, according to research by Aon Risk...
WKF&C PRO Adds New Assisted Living Facilities Program
Jun 7 2011 // WKF&C PRO has added a new assisted living facilities program. The new program is available on non-admitted paper in all states except Alaska and certain counties in Fla., (Miami-Dade, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough,...
K&B Underwriters Enhance, Rebrand Senior Living Program
Apr 4 2011 // K&B Underwriters, LLC, an insurance program administrator, has enhanced its senior living program and rebranded the program as DigniCARE Risk Solutions. The enhancements include a new A.M. Best “A+” rated...
