Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Families of Victims Sue in North Carolina Nursing Home Shootings
Dec 17 2010 // The families of two of the eight people shot and killed at a North Carolina nursing home last year have sued, saying the home didn’t do enough to protect residents. Seven residents and a nurse were killed and two...
Kentucky Jury Awards $42 Million in Nursing Home Death
Nov 22 2010 // The family of a man who died after nine days in a Madisonville nursing home has won a $42.75 million verdict. Attorney Lisa Circeo argued in court that 92-year-old Joseph Clint Offutt died because Harborside of...
Growth, Stability and Changes in Store for Long Term Care Market
Nov 14 2010 // With the first of 77 million baby boomers nearing retirement age in 2011, assisted living facilities and nursing home facilities will play a more important role than ever before. About three million Americans will require...
It Figures
Oct 4 2010 // 124 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that investigators have identified 124 people with active arrest warrants who were residents or staff members of nursing homes for elderly residents. Madigan said they...
124 with Arrest Warrants Found in Illinois Nursing Homes
Sep 22 2010 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that investigators have identified 124 people with active arrest warrants who were residents or staff members of nursing homes for elderly residents. Madigan said they were...
MMIC Group Launches Long Term Care Program
Aug 5 2010 // Medical professional liability insurance specialist MMIC Group has expanded its insurance services to the growing population of long term care providers. Eligible facility types include skilled care, assisted living and...
Marshall Joins ASI Healthcare’s Liability Sales Team in Atlanta
Jun 23 2010 // Paul Marshall has joined ASI Healthcare in Atlanta, a division of American Safety Insurance, as vice president of sales in ASI Healthcare Division. Marshall will be responsible for ASI’s liability products for...
ASI Healthcare Offers Pollution Liability for Nursing Homes, Assisted Living
Apr 30 2010 // ASI Healthcare, a division of American Safety Insurance (ASI), now offers an optional Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) coverage form for nursing home, assisted living and elder care facilities. The EIL form covers...
Report: Nurse Assistants Rehired After Misconduct
Mar 23 2010 // A California state Senate report said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer...
Union General Offers California Market for Adult Day Care Centers
Mar 2 2010 // Available to California agents, Union General has an “A+” rated carrier offering coverage for all types of basic daily care facilities for the elderly. The company provides physical/sexual abuse coverage, as...
North Carolina Assisted Living Center Owners Avoid $1.2 Million Liability
Feb 3 2010 // The owners of a North Carolina assisted living home have declared bankruptcy and could escape responsibility for what a judge called a pattern of neglect by under-trained and understaffed employees. Superior Court Judge...
Nurses, Long-Term Care Facility Risk Retention Groups Merge, Expand
Jan 12 2010 // Atlanta-based Lewis & Clark LTC RRG, Inc., a nationwide provider of liability insurance to long-term care facilities, has merged with Sophia Palmer Nurses RRG, Inc. of Florida. Sophia Palmer RRG was established in 2006...
Oregon Woman Killed in Nursing Home Fire
Dec 23 2009 // Authorities say a woman who suffered burns in a fire at an assisted living center in Tigard has died. According to Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue, firefighters responded to a blaze at Park Place Assisted Living Center at...
Massachusetts Woman Sues Nursing Home Where She Worked
Dec 23 2009 // A Northampton woman claims in a lawsuit filed against the Holyoke nursing home where she worked for three years that she was fired for complaining about improper treatment of patients. Joan Johnson is seeking $56,000 in...
