All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway’s healthcare liability insurance unit, MedPro Group, has appointed Charles “Chuck” Colburn as president of its newly-formed senior care division. He is based in Chicago. Before assuming...
Dec 17 2014 // The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of...
Dec 2 2014 // K&B Underwriters, a Reston, Virginia-based program administrator and wholesale insurance brokerage for senior living facilities, announced its partnership with New York-based Freedom Specialty for its DigniCARE...
Nov 17 2014 // Adults 65 years and older now number 40 million in the United States and that population will grow to 70 million, or nearly 20 percent, of the country’s total population, over the next 25 years.Two factors are...
Nov 17 2014 // The graying of America could be a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs, including young insurance producers.As the nation’s population continues to gray, the people who work in the many businesses and...
Nov 11 2014 // The California Department of Public Health does not try to determine how nursing home chains compare on key quality measures even though the information would be valuable and potentially life-saving for consumers, a...
Oct 13 2014 // Two more confirmed cases of hepatitis C have been tied to a Minot, N.D., nursing home that’s the subject of a federal lawsuit.The new cases bring the total associated with ManorCare to 47 and add to the list of...
Oct 2 2014 // The U.S. Patent Office has issued a third patent to Tim Goux, CEO of CareRise, a risk management company based in Mandeville, La. The patent further protects the company’s business method to reduce insurance claims...
Sep 26 2014 // A Seminole woman pleaded with Oklahoma state lawmakers recently to “demand changes in the staffing and other requirements of our state’s long-term care facilities.”“We tried to do precisely that...
Sep 23 2014 // Juanita Jackson died in July 2003, five weeks after she was removed from a Florida nursing home where her family said continual neglect led to multiple bedsores, malnutrition and a fall that injured her head.Trying to...
Aug 18 2014 // Texas nursing homes that thrice commit egregious oversight offenses could be shuttered under a plan proposed by state lawmakers.The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended the crackdown at its recent meeting in...
Aug 6 2014 // Dallas, TX, 8/6/14 — U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the ninth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that the HealthcarePros division of U.S. Risk...
Jul 31 2014 // SCI Underwriting Management, LLC, a managing insurance agency with a focus on the aging service industry, has launched four new products for the segment: property (ultimate cover); nursing home auto coverage; crime...
Jun 20 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has slashed by more than half the multimillion-dollar damages a jury levied against a Charleston nursing home in connection with a former resident’s death.In a 76-page divided opinion...
Jun 10 2014 // The quality of care at Louisiana’s nursing homes is among the worst in the nation, with high rates of bed sores and physical restraints and low levels of nursing staff, according to a state legislative report...
Mar 7 2014 // Defendants who can be named in lawsuits against nursing homes in Florida would be limited under a bill that moved this week through the House Civil Justice Committee.Developers, silent partners and other parties that could...
Mar 5 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a $91 million verdict against a Charleston nursing home.The Charleston Gazette reported that the justices will hear Heartland of Charleston’s appeal today....
Feb 10 2014 // Kentucky lawmakers are preparing for another debate on whether to shake up the state’s medical malpractice system, with some influential outside voices joining on both sides of the discussion.A new coalition of...
Jan 27 2014 // Kentucky lawmakers are preparing for another debate on whether to shake up the state’s medical malpractice system, with some influential outside voices joining on both sides of the discussion.A new coalition of...
Jan 22 2014 // The family of a 101-year-old man who died of pneumonia after being housed in a Montgomery nursing home has been awarded $400,000.AL.com reported that an arbitrator awarded the money to the estate of John A. Garrett on Jan....