Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Dakota Family Files Federal Suit Against Nursing Home
May 7 2012 // The family of a man who resided in a Grand Forks nursing home until he died in January is suing the elder care facility in federal court. The complaint against Valley Homes and Services accuses Valley Eldercare Center of...
Business Moves – West
May 7 2012 // SIAA Hampton, N.H.-based Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed nine new members in the Western United States. The new members include: Farling Insurance Agency of Litchfield Park, Ariz. Baldrica & Company of...
Settlement Reached in Maine Class-Action Disability Lawsuit
May 4 2012 // A federal judge in Maine has approved a settlement in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 40 people with long-term disabilities who wanted opportunities to live outside nursing homes. District Judge Nancy Torreson on...
Widow Gets $3.2 Million After Nursing Home Death
May 4 2012 // The widow of an 88-year-old Colorado man who died as a result of bedsores he suffered in a Rocky Ford nursing home has been awarded $3.2 million. An Otero County District Court jury said Rocky Ford-based Pioneer Health...
PPIB Launches Home Health Care Program
Apr 20 2012 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has formed a new senior/home health care program. This program includes, but is not limited to the following: nurse registry, healthcare staffing, adult daycare,...
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds West Virginia Law on Arbitration in Nursing Home Cases
Mar 26 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a West Virginia law that allows nursing homes to use pre-dispute arbitration agreements with residents that prevent them from suing in medical malpractice cases. In a recent case, [Marmet...
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...
