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Abuse case, resident's death raise questions about nursing home care: A Critical Choice
August 22nd, 2017
CLEVELAND, Ohio – One incapacitated resident at Park East Care and Rehab Center was tormented by an employee who admitted spraying cleaning solution into his eyes. Another resident died, after Park East’s nursing staff apparently twice ne…
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Ohio tort reform protects rapists per Ohio Supreme Court ruling
December 15th, 2016
Lack of accountability provides employment avenues for sexual predators Columbus, OH.(December 14, 2016) – The Ohio Supreme Court today ruled that Ohio’s tort reform legislation, passed in 2005, protects a business that knowingly hires sexual…
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Life Care Centers of America agrees to $145 million settlement
November 3rd, 2016
Written by and originally posted on The Times Free Press. Life Care Centers of America, the nation’s largest private nursing home company based in Cleveland, Tenn., has agreed to pay $145 million over charges that it overbilled the government f…
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CMS bans pre-dispute forced arbitration in nursing home contracts
October 21st, 2016
Written by Diane M. Zhang and originally published on the AAJ. On Sept. 28, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule prohibiting nursing homes from using pre-dispute arbitration agreements in admissions contracts dated…
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Wells Fargo's Secret Weapon? The Ripoff Clause
October 6th, 2016
Our coalition partners in the fight to end forced arbitration have created a fantastic new video showing how Wells Fargo used forced arbitration to hide its massive scheme to create fraudulent accounts in customers’ names. At recent hearings in the…
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Nursing Home Residents Still Vulnerable to Abuse
July 26th, 2016
People entering nursing homes need to know that all reasonable safeguards are in place to ensure quality care. But federal rules to be finalized soon fail to hold nursing homes truly accountable to patients, their families or the law. At issue are ar…
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Attorney Blake A. Dickson teaches on the faculty at the Nursing Home Litigation Group seminar in Nashville
May 28th, 2016
The American Association for Justice is the premier organization of attorneys in the United States who represent individual and their families in lawsuits against big corporations, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, large pharmac…
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$1 Million Jury Verdict in Tragic Ohio Nursing Home Death Case
April 12th, 2016
The Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys (CATA) recently reported on The Dickson Firm’s service to an Ohio family who suffered the loss of a loved one at the Beachwood Pointe Care Centre. Blake … empowered the jury to send a message to ot…
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Litigation Holds Nursing Homes and Insurance Companies Accountable For Elderly Abuse
March 10th, 2016
Nursing homes are now big business. Extremely large corporations own and operate hundreds of nursing homes throughout the country. Corporate chains are anticipating a flood of baby boomers moving into their facilities over the next few years. Their m…
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Decubitus Ulcers
February 14th, 2016
Decubitus ulcers or pressure ulcers can develop when somebody is left in the same position too long and contact is being made with a portion of their body and a surface. If their circulation is cut off by the pressure, a pressure sore or bed sore can…
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