Immunity Upheld for State Officials Over COVID-Related Nursing Home Deaths February 5, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a proposed class action against New Jersey government officials on behalf of...
Lawmakers Want Investigations Into Deaths of Older Adults in Abuse or Neglect Cases March 28, 2024 By Marc Levy Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania are pushing Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration to do more to investigate the deaths of older...
Florida Nursing Home Operator Acquitted of Causing Patient Deaths in Hurricane Irma February 27, 2023 A judge on Friday acquitted a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after...
French Families Join Class Action After Thousands of COVID Deaths in Nursing Homes March 4, 2021 By Angela Charlton PARIS – A Paris court [held] a hearing Wednesday in a class-action effort to hold French health authorities and companies...
Judge Orders Release of New York Data on Long-Term Care Deaths February 8, 2021 By Marina Villeneuve A state judge ordered New York’s Department of Health to release records about nursing home residents who died of COVID-19...
New York Undercounted Nursing Home Deaths by Thousands, Attorney General Says February 3, 2021 By Marina Villeneuve, Bernard Condon and Matt Sedensky New York may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents by thousands, the state attorney general charged in a...
Report Says COVID-19 Brought to N.Y. Nursing Homes By Infected Staff, Visitors July 16, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield A New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) report says the coronavirus outbreak that has afflicted nursing homes throughout the...
Report: Florida Nursing Home Temperatures After Irma Reached Sweltering Level January 12, 2018 Florida regulators say temperatures rose to 99 degrees (37 Celsius) in a sweltering nursing home under investigation for the deaths...
Tennessee Fines Nursing Home $50K For Patient Deaths December 4, 2017 Tennessee state inspectors found widespread neglect resulting in patients’ deaths at a nursing home that has been fined $50,000, the...
Florida Nursing Home to Congress: Patient Deaths After Hurricane Irma Not Staff’s Fault November 22, 2017 By Terry Spencer A Florida nursing home under investigation for the deaths of 13 patients after Hurricane Irma says in a letter to...