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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More ideas on tort reform. How about making hospitals disclose their errors harming patients? Its called accountability. In Pennsylvania, state hospitals are required to disclose patient outcomes and guess what? That state has learned that disclosure helps improve care, and that good care is actually cheaper than bad care. How about reforming North Carolina law
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I finally see that the national media is paying attention to what brain injury lawyers such as myself have known for years. 60 Minutes did a feature segment on the dangers of high school sports and coaches and trainers not knowing the susceptibility of the brain to further injury after suffering just one concussion. I
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More on tort reform. The New England Journal of Medicine has come out with a refreshing article – suggesting that under certain circumstances health care providers, including doctors, should be held accountable for their mistakes. See the link. In these times, when most persons injured by medical neglect are not compensated for their injuries, it
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How about a little hypocrisy. For weeks now, we have been hearing about how tort reform is needed to prevent doctors from having to practice what they call “defensive medicine,” performing unnecessary and expensive tests that drive up the cost of care. But lookee here, folks — when the Senate has tried to add financial
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During my years of suing nursing home operators for patient neglect and abuse, I’ve learned to follow the money: When I have followed the money, I’ve learned that too much of it goes in owners’ pockets and too little of it is spent on patient care and care provider salaries. I’ve also learned that owners
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