Wrongful Death

Federal Nursing Home Quality of Care Regulations

Nursing homes that accept Medicare or Medicaid are required to comply with quality of care regulations. Although we have blogged…

5 months ago

The Plaintiff’s Injury Case

There are many types of "Plaintiff's cases." This article focuses on injury cases. Injury cases can be as simple as…

2 years ago

News Roundup 1-21-2022

General News Sources: Oldest person in the US reportedly dies at 115 Supreme Court declines to hear case of Delphi…

3 years ago

Harmon v. St. Augustine Manor, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25504 (N.D. Ohio 2007)

Plaintiff filed a malpractice and wrongful death action against the nursing home and other defendants alleging that resident's death was…

4 years ago

Bartholomew v. Wis. Patients Comp. Fund, 2006 WI 91 (Wis. 2006)

A jury awarded $500,000 to the resident's estate for noneconomic damages for predeath pain and suffering, $350,000 to the spouse…

4 years ago

Buie v. Mariner Health Care, Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94139 (D. Miss. 2006)

Buie filed a wrongful death action after resident's death. Buie signed an agreement for arbitration on the line for a…

4 years ago

Williams v. Nat’l Heritage Realty Inc., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39889 (D. Miss. 2006)

A wrongful death case was removed to federal court on diversity grounds. Defendants alleged fraudulent joinder. Plaintiff's motion to remand…

4 years ago

Alston v. Britthaven, Inc., 628 S.E.2d 824 (N.C. Ct. App. 2006)

"Plaintiff presented expert medical testimony that the cause of Mr. Alston's death was septicemia, or an infection which entered into…

4 years ago

Jenkins v. Pensacola Health Trust, Inc., 933 So. 2d 923 (Miss. 2006)

Summary judgment was affirmed in part and reversed in part. The statute of limitations for underlying acts of negligence applies…

4 years ago