January 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, he is promising to “shore up” Maryland’s civil rights …
March 20, 2023
A Southern California residential care home company and three of its managers have been charged in connection with 14 COVID-related deaths at one of its facilities three years ago, prosecutors said. The criminal complaint alleges Silverado Senior Living Management failed …
January 6, 2020
The senior population continues growing at a time when the insurance market for senior living operations is under strain and both trends are expected to continue. The population of Americans over age 80 will double, from 6 million to 12 …
November 25, 2015
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered nursing homes and other health care providers to run national background checks on all new employees or risk losing their license to operate in the state. Beshear signed the emergency regulation on Nov. 20. …
March 7, 2013
A Sacramento Superior Court jury has returned verdicts of wrongful death and elder abuse against the nation’s largest assisted living company. The Sacramento Bee reported the trial now enters the punitive-damages phase for Emeritus Corp, a Seattle-based company with annual …
February 27, 2013
The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated a jury verdict against the management company of a Shelbyville assisted living center in a case involving the death of an 83-year-old woman. Records say Mable Farrar died after her colon ruptured when a …
June 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, Manatee, Palm Beach, Pinellas and Orange Counties.). The …
April 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 market with coverage available on a claims made basis in …