Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
$91M Damage Award Against West Virginia Nursing Home Upheld
Nov 7 2011 // A Kanawha County, West Virginia judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours...
Kentucky Jury Awards $1M in Nursing Home Fall
Oct 26 2011 // A court in Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled that a nursing home should pay more than $1 million to a resident who was severely injured in a fall in an equipment storage room. Irene Hendrix was in her late 80s and had been...
West Virginia Judge Affirms $91M Damage Award Against Nursing Home
Oct 24 2011 // A Kanawha County, West Virginia judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours...
Obama Pulls Plug on Long-Term Care Plan in Healthcare Law
Oct 17 2011 // The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president’s signature health overhaul law — a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial...
IronHealth Introduces Adverse Health Survey Cost Coverage for Nursing Homes
Oct 14 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has introduced a companion policy for existing insurance clients to complement its suite of professional and general liability coverages for nursing home...
Millennium Brokerage Forms Long Term Care Program Through Physicians Financial
Sep 30 2011 // Millennium Brokerage Group (MBG) has launched a new long term care (LTC) program that will be available to physicians and their families through AMA Insurance Agency’s Physician Financial Partners program. Physicians...
Nursing Home Case Spotlights West Virginia’s Malpractice Damages Cap
Sep 30 2011 // Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state’s Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million jury award should be reduced under the state’s medical malpractice law. In...
West Virginia Jury Awards $91.5 Million in Nursing Home Death
Aug 9 2011 // A jury in Kanawha County, West Virginia has awarded $91.5 million in damages to the family of an 87-year-old woman who died after her stay at a Charleston nursing home. The jury ruled that Heartland of Charleston failed to...
Average Long Term Care Liability Claim Rising: Aon Study
Jun 17 2011 // Long term care liability costs are rising because the average claim size is increasing even as claim frequency declines. There has been a four percent increase in the average claim size, according to research by Aon Risk...
WKF&C PRO Adds New Assisted Living Facilities Program
Jun 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,...
K&B Underwriters Enhance, Rebrand Senior Living Program
Apr 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...
Families of Victims Sue in North Carolina Nursing Home Shootings
Dec 17 2010 // The families of two of the eight people shot and killed at a North Carolina nursing home last year have sued, saying the home didn’t do enough to protect residents. Seven residents and a nurse were killed and two...
Kentucky Jury Awards $42 Million in Nursing Home Death
Nov 22 2010 // The family of a man who died after nine days in a Madisonville nursing home has won a $42.75 million verdict. Attorney Lisa Circeo argued in court that 92-year-old Joseph Clint Offutt died because Harborside of...
Growth, Stability and Changes in Store for Long Term Care Market
Nov 14 2010 // With the first of 77 million baby boomers nearing retirement age in 2011, assisted living facilities and nursing home facilities will play a more important role than ever before. About three million Americans will require...
It Figures
Oct 4 2010 // 124 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that investigators have identified 124 people with active arrest warrants who were residents or staff members of nursing homes for elderly residents. Madigan said they...
124 with Arrest Warrants Found in Illinois Nursing Homes
Sep 22 2010 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that investigators have identified 124 people with active arrest warrants who were residents or staff members of nursing homes for elderly residents. Madigan said they were...
MMIC Group Launches Long Term Care Program
Aug 5 2010 // Medical professional liability insurance specialist MMIC Group has expanded its insurance services to the growing population of long term care providers. Eligible facility types include skilled care, assisted living and...
Marshall Joins ASI Healthcare’s Liability Sales Team in Atlanta
Jun 23 2010 // Paul Marshall has joined ASI Healthcare in Atlanta, a division of American Safety Insurance, as vice president of sales in ASI Healthcare Division. Marshall will be responsible for ASI’s liability products for...
ASI Healthcare Offers Pollution Liability for Nursing Homes, Assisted Living
Apr 30 2010 // ASI Healthcare, a division of American Safety Insurance (ASI), now offers an optional Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) coverage form for nursing home, assisted living and elder care facilities. The EIL form covers...
Report: Nurse Assistants Rehired After Misconduct
Mar 23 2010 // A California state Senate report said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer...
