An excellent new video helps explain how to spot whether an athlete has suffered a concussion. Concussions in sports, and especially football, have been a large part of health news lately. Traumatic brain injury attorneys like me have been waiting for years for this focus to finally be placed. I see all too often the […]
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Last spring, HensonFuerst senior partner Bob Fuerst was contacted by Sue Humphreys (far right) and Jerry Dawson of ALS. Sue is the director of care services and Jerry is the executive director. After discussing the needs of the local chapter, the 2009 HensonFuerst Health Initiative funded the annual NC ALS Support Group Facilitators Conference, the
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HensonFuerst Partner Anne Duvoisin was a speaker at the American Advocates for Justice nursing home litigation seminar in Chicago, Illinois this past weekend. Her topic related to nursing home ownership transparency and accountability. For a complete listing of seminar topics , click on the link below: Agenda
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Our Court of Appeals upheld a punitive damages award against a business for putting self-protection from litigation ahead of customer safety as a matter of policy. In so holding, the Court wrote: “This evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to Ms.Everhart, shows that, although Mr. Witherspoon knew Ms. Everharthad ingested some unknown substance that
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Sec. Gene Conti announced today that National Teen Driver Safety Week will take place next week, beginning Oct. 18 and ending Oct. 24. In 2007, Congress passed a joint resolution making the third week in October National Teen Driver Safety Week. Its mission is to bring teens, community leaders, educators, and parents together to take
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In conjunction with the University of North Carolina School of Law’s Small and Medium Firms Week, our managing partner, David S. Henson, was an invited panelist on Thursday, October 15 for a discussion, “Setting Up and Running a Solo or Small Law Office Practice.” This panel discussion was part of the UNC School of Law’s
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Encourage your senators and representatives in Congress to vote for the Nursing Home Transparency Act, w hich will require nursing home owners to identify themselves. For years, the nursing home industry has dodged its responsibility to nursing home patients by hiding who the owners and operators are. Only a person or company with a license
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Britthaven, Inc. operates over 50 nursing homes — almost all of them are in North Carolina. Its Jacksonville facility is currently under investigation by the State. See attached story. http://www.jdnews.com/news/state-68641-agency-investigation.html
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An arbitration panel awarded over 2 million dollars on behalf of an elderly woman residing in a Mariner nursing home in Tennessee. The plaintiff successfully contended that the legal entities were each other’s alter egos. The elderly woman developed pressure sores and languished in her own wastes for lengthy periods of time because there was
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