LEXINGTON, Ky. N A group that advocates for nursing home reforms has asked the governor to appoint a task force to review why more abuse and death cases arenOt prosecuted. Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform founder Bernie Vonderheide told the Lexington Herald-Leader he made the request after stories in the newspaper showed few citations were prosecuted as crimes over a three-year period.
Nursing home employees who report cases of elder abuse would gain extra protection from losing their jobs under a package of bills introduced Wednesday by a metro Atlanta lawmaker. Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Loganville, said current laws are too weak to shield whistleblowers from losing their jobs or being discriminated against in their communities.
Rising Star Ashley Baird, attorney, Dollar, Burns & Becker
...Practice areas: Nursing home abuse and neglect, nursing home litigation, h... amicus briefs on important appellate court cases. What's one of your most significant accomplishmen...
CIVIL - motion for summary judgment; Civ.R. 56(C); de novo; wrongful discharge in violation of public policy; clear public policy
... report abuse that occurs in nursing homes. {¶29} The public policy in Dolan is ta... existence of the nursing home patient’s bill of rights, embodied in R.C. 3721. Thi... abuse cases governed by R.C. 3721 because a statutory reme...
... not only through fees generated by the cases, but also through repeat business. The danger to c... going back into private practice at his hometown in Marietta, Georgia, where he practices law with ...Connor is also an advocate on behalf of nursing home residents, and was appointed to Florida's Tas... unfettered power of any kind will become abuse. Binding mandatory arbitration, or BMA, in contra...
A recent $90.5 million jury verdict against a local nursing home has brought a new spotlight on a 2003 law to limit medical liability damages and promises to propel what could be a lengthy debate that ends up in the state Supreme Court. Heartland Nursing Home and its parent company, ManorCare Inc., have asked a circuit judge to review a $90.5 million verdict against it in an abuse and neglect case.
... of the alleged victims in the Masconomet Nursing Home abuse scandal. Among those represented is the... in nursing home abuse and negligence cases for over 15 years, stated, "It is unacceptable for...
Two small firm lawyers joined forces to win a $29 million jury verdict against a nursing home for delaying treatment of a 79-year- old woman who suffered a fractured hip and bed sore that led to her death. Edward Dudensing, who runs a two-lawyer firm in Sacramento, Calif., and Jay Renneisen, founder of the two-lawyer Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same law school and both specialize in elder abuse cases.
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed James Fleischaker, of Joplin, to the Missouri Southern State University Board of Governors, which oversees the implementation of academic programs of higher learning. Fleischaker is a former circuit judge for Jasper County and has served as a Joplin Special Road District commissioner. Nixon appointed him for a term ending Aug. 30, 2017. Daniel Burke, an Armstrong Teasdale lawyer, has become a member of the Clayton Century Foundation Major Gifts Committee. The CCF is a non-profit organization serving as a private partner to the City of Clayton in support of the restoration and enhancement of Clayton's cultural, recreational and environmental assets. Burke is a member of the firm's real estate, public finance and future energy practice groups.
... personal injury litigation, focusing on nursing home litigation, wrongful death, trucking litigatiion, medical malpractice and daycare abuse cases. Baird previously worked at Dempsey & Kingsl...
Mississippi lawyer John Arthur Eaves Jr. likes a challenge. He took on a huge one early this year when he decided to challenge popular Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican who is seeking a second four-year term.
... in asbestos, pharmaceutical drugs and nursing home abuse cases. He has represented five German f...
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