All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2013 // A Sacramento Superior Court jury has returned verdicts of wrongful death and elder abuse against the nation’s largest assisted living company.The Sacramento Bee reported the trial now enters the punitive-damages...
Feb 27 2013 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated a jury verdict against the management company of a Shelbyville assisted living center in a case involving the death of an 83-year-old woman. Records say Mable Farrar died after...
Feb 6 2013 // AmWINS Program Underwriters (APU), an AmWINS Group company, has acquired certain assets of CIMI Professional. CIMI Professional is a long-term care managing general underwriter (MGU) and a division of Chandler Insurance...
Dec 13 2012 // As Americans do their best to plan for retirement, all it takes is a visit to a financial planner to realize the importance and value of long-term care insurance. The goal of purchasing it is two-fold: retaining as much of...
Oct 17 2012 // Towers Watson, a global professional services company, plans to acquire the business of the DaVinci Consulting Group, a boutique actuarial consulting firm that specializes in the long-term care insurance market, on or...
Oct 8 2012 // Poor results in the long-term care insurance sector have led many providers to exit the market, leaving its future uncertain, Moody’s Investors Service says.Moody’s report, “Long-Term Care Insurance:...
Sep 19 2012 // Poor results in the long-term care insurance sector have led many providers to exit the market, leaving its future uncertain, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new report.The report, “Long-Term Care...
Aug 17 2012 // An appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit claiming the owner of 16 Alameda County nursing homes fails to meet California nurse-staffing standards.A group of patients filed suit claiming Covenant Care nursing homes had...
Jul 18 2012 // Long term care liability loss rates and claim severity have reached an eight-year high and are expected to grow steadily in 2013 against a backdrop of health care provider budget constraints and uncertainty about health...
May 7 2012 // The family of a man who resided in a Grand Forks nursing home until he died in January is suing the elder care facility in federal court.The complaint against Valley Homes and Services accuses Valley Eldercare Center of...
May 7 2012 // SIAAHampton, N.H.-based Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed nine new members in the Western United States. The new members include: Farling Insurance Agency of Litchfield Park, Ariz. Baldrica & Company of...
May 4 2012 // A federal judge in Maine has approved a settlement in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 40 people with long-term disabilities who wanted opportunities to live outside nursing homes. District Judge Nancy Torreson on...
May 4 2012 // The widow of an 88-year-old Colorado man who died as a result of bedsores he suffered in a Rocky Ford nursing home has been awarded $3.2 million.An Otero County District Court jury said Rocky Ford-based Pioneer Health Care...
Apr 20 2012 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has formed a new senior/home health care program. This program includes, but is not limited to the following: nurse registry, healthcare staffing, adult daycare,...
Mar 26 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a West Virginia law that allows nursing homes to use pre-dispute arbitration agreements with residents that prevent them from suing in medical malpractice cases.In a recent case, [Marmet...
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature.Healthcare is one of the country’s largest industries. Annual spending on healthcare in the U.S. tops $2.6 trillion, more than 16 percent of...
Mar 13 2012 // The overall cost and frequency of so called $50 million plus “super losses” in the U.S. healthcare insurance sector are on the rise.According to a report from specialist healthcare insurer Hiscox, the large...
Mar 7 2012 // K&B Underwriters has launched a new workers’ compensation product in collaboration with SeaBright Insurance Co. The carrier will bring a claims handling and loss control program to K&B’s senior living...
Feb 17 2012 // Attorneys for an Arkansas nursing home and the man who runs it say they deserve a new trial in a case in which a jury ordered the nursing home to pay more than $5 million following the death of a woman whose estate says...
Jan 26 2012 // Illinois is getting $110 million from the federal government to improve safety and staffing at nursing homes, Gov. Pat Quinn said.The money is supposed to address poor supervision of sometimes-dangerous psychiatric...