Most Popular Senior Care Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page over the last year.
#1 New York Insurance Broker Caught in $38 Million Nursing Home Tax Fraud Scheme
Nov 20 2024 // Prosecutors report that a New York insurance broker has admitted his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he owned across the country, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced that...
#2 Nursing Home Operators Must Pay $35.8 Million in Back Wages and Damages
Aug 1 2024 // In one of the nation’s largest wage recovery judgments, a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers in nursing,...
#3 Nursing Homes Struggle With Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Jul 14 2025 // Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration. Facilities for older adults and disabled people...
#4 Senior Living Facilities Face Labor Shortages, Nuclear Verdicts and Changing Insurance Market
Sep 16 2024 // Continuing worker shortages, the threat of nuclear verdicts in some geographical locations, and the implementation of new technology are all shaping the property/casualty insurance market for senior living...
#5 Federal Jury Awards $405K Verdict Against Florida Senior Living Facility
May 20 2025 // A federal jury awarded $405,083 to a veteran in a disability discrimination case against a St. Petersburg, Florida, senior living facility and its operating companies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
#6 Minnesota Senior Living Facility Fined $73K for Pregnancy Discrimination
Apr 23 2025 // White Pine Senior Living, an assisted living facility in Minnesota, has agreed to pay $73,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
#7 Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility Takes 9 Lives, Injures 30
Jul 14 2025 // Nine people have died in a fire at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, where people were hanging out of windows screaming for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30 people were injured. Firefighters responded...
#8 Texas Assisted Living Facility Sued for Firing Worker With Sleep Disorder
Aug 2 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, violated federal law when it denied an employee an accommodation for her sleep disorder and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment...
#9 Louisiana Nursing Home Owner to Pay $8.2M for Misusing Assets During Ida
Oct 22 2024 // Louisiana nursing home owner Bob Dean Jr. and several companies he operated have agreed to an $8.2 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that they misappropriated and misused the assets and income of four nursing...
#10 Post-Mortem Begins of Assisted-Living Fire That Killed 9 in Massachusetts
Jul 15 2025 // Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who leaned out of windows and screamed for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30...
#11 Michigan Nursing Homes to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over Substandard Care Allegations
Jul 10 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations...
#12 Maryland AG Vows to Protect Seniors in Assisted Living, Workers Denied Full Wages
Jan 10 2025 // Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown is making legislation protecting seniors in assisted living facilities and enforcement of fair wages and safe working conditions for workers as priorities for 2025. Additionally,...
#13 Michigan Adult Care Company to Pay $170K in EEOC Lawsuit
Jan 21 2025 // PACE Southeast Michigan, a company providing all-inclusive care for the elderly, will pay $170,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission...
#14 Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder
Nov 1 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...
#15 Deadly Massachusetts Fire Highlights Assisted-Living Regulation, Staffing
Jul 17 2025 // The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing...
#16 Massachusetts Assisted Living Home Had Been Cited for Late Safety Reports
Jul 16 2025 // A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents, according to regulators’ most recent review of...
#17 Settlement Offered to Nursing Home Residents Kept in Warehouse During Ida
Dec 9 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Some of the elderly residents of seven Louisiana nursing homes who were sent in 2021 to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse are being offered shares of a nearly $9 million...
#18 New Mexico Nursing Home Inspections Find at Least 1 Violation in 88% of Facilities
Aug 8 2024 // Recent unannounced inspections of nursing homes across New Mexico found at least one violation in 88% of them, authorities said. State health officials said just 11 of the 91 assisted living facilities received a perfect...
#19 Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder
Nov 18 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...
