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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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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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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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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Tort Reform. How should North Carolina law be revamped so that it would be fairer to the average Joe, rather than the corporations and their CEOs who seem to benefit most from attacks on the court system. One way that tort law could be reformed in our state to better serve and protect our citizens
The Washington State Supreme Court rendered a decision recently that will significantly improve the ability of someone in that state who is abused or neglected in a nursing home to hold the facility operators accountable for the abuse. In Putman vs. Wenatchee Medical Center, the Court struck down and held unconstitutional the rule requiring a
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“More than a dozen agencies joined the search for 62-year-old Annie Langley Monday after she was reported missing from Primrose Villa Retirement Community in Angier.Langley is the second resident of the facility, at 431 Junny Road, to be the subject of a Silver Alert this year. In February, 85-year-old Carrie C. Evans wandered away. She
A congressman in California has been recognized by a senior advocacy group for authoring legislation providing extra funding for the state ombudsman program. North Carolina also has a State Ombudsman program which many people do not even know exists. The program provides each county with a person, known as an ombudsman, whose job is to
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The North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation has closed the Floyd McKissick Senior Assisted Living Center in Norlina, which received zero stars under the state’s adult care licensure rating system. In the entire state, only two other facilities, Sunshine Family Care Homes in Eden and the WNC Family Care Home in Leicester, also received
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According to Catherine Goldman, senior practitioner with Wake County Human Services, the home needs sharp regulatory eyes trained on it to protect residents. “These folks are at risk,” Goldman said Wednesday. Consequently, the home has a no-star rating due to problems like a smoking-related building fire, high rates of medication mistakes, electrical hazards and food
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