Elder Abuse News
Following are recent news articles about elder abuse and nursing home abuse and neglect lawsuits, settlements and claims from throughout the US.
Another lawsuit against social worker
Winifred Lau Stewart - named in an elder abuse lawsuit filed against the county of Marin ... of trust and took it upon herself to make financial arrangements for ...
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Man Faces Trial for Wife‘s Starving Death
... Attorney William Riddle is expected to argue that kidney disease caused Kilrain ... president of The National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, had not ...
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Senior swindles soaring
... And it's becoming more prevalent, with reports of elder financial abuse soaring statewide, from 7,733 in 2000 to 11,345 in 2004. ...
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Seniors are prime targets
... And it's becoming more prevalent, with reports of elder financial abuse soaring statewide, from 7,733 in 2000 to 11,345 in 2004. ...
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Hospital beds can be a dangerous trap to elderly, sedated
... attorney in Sacramento who is suing a nursing home for the ... the bed industry and the hospitals, nursing homes and ... as Lynn did, according to the lawsuit filed by ...
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Lawsuit over deadly medication error settled
... died after being given the wrong prescription settled a lawsuit for $100,000. ... will pay $95,000 and Homewood at Martinsburg, the nursing home where Kahley lived ...
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Mass. medical examiner whistleblower lawsuit heads to trial
... In his lawsuit, Philip cited numerous problems in the medical examiner's office ... its failure to thoroughly investigate the deaths of nursing home patients and ...
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Nursing home fined for CPR mix-up
... The next month, the nursing home was fined $55,000 for failure to prevent abuse or neglect of a ... A coroner's jury returned a homicide verdict in the first ...
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California Fines Nursing Home Chain $1 Million
California's second-largest nursing home chain has agreed to pay $1 million and improve ... result in a permanent injunction that resolves a civil lawsuit filed by ...
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Court rules for elder abuse case retrial
... in a lawsuit that claims a Marin County social worker took financial advantage of ... county of Marin," said John Mounier, an attorney with the Elder Rights Law ...
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Elder abuser going to prison
... A bill aimed at protecting senior citizens from elder abuse through more aggressive law enforcement, public health education and social services is being ...
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Flimflam woman gets $5,000 from Brockton senior citizen
... Violence and Crime, financial exploitation including scams account for one in every 25 elder-abuse case, making 5 million victims of financial abuse. ...
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Attorney general sues owner of nursing homes after death
... eight former employees of a Big Rapids nursing home in connection ... Cox is suing the company that owns the home. ... Wednesday that he filed a lawsuit against Metron ...
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Cox sues owner of nursing homes after death
... eight former employees of a Big Rapids nursing home in connection ... Cox is suing the company that owns the home. ... Wednesday that he filed a lawsuit against Metron ...
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Former nursing home workers plead guilty in laxative prank
... convictions for two former Irvine nursing home workers who pleaded guilty to criminal abuse for giving ... sentenced probated, according to Attorney General Greg ...
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Man charges nursing home with wrongful death
Edward Wilson states in a lawsuit filed March 1 in Kanawha Circuit Court ... He charges the defendants with statutory violations, negligence and wrongful death. ...
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Metron lawsuit a warning, Cox says
His lawsuit against a Cascade Township-based nursing home chain is a warning to all nursing homes in Michigan that they must meet state and federal standards ...
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Elder Abuse: the Horrible Secret
... that only one of 14 domestic elder abuse incidents come ... were subjected to physical abuse; 12.3 percent were subjected to financial/material exploitation ...
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Financial abuse of elderly is increasing
... In the past decade, reports of financial exploitation of the elderly have jumped from 7 percent to 15 percent of all reported elder abuse cases in Cuyahoga ...
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