All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 4 2012 // Glatfelter Program Managers, a program business division of Glatfelter Insurance Group in York, Penn., acquired senior living and religious organizations programs from Bunker Hill Underwriters Agency in Houston.The senior...
Dec 14 2011 // A nurse with a prior felony conviction for forging prescriptions dilutes morphine solutions for five Halstead, Kan., nursing home patients. Another nurse convicted of stealing drugs from patients at an Emporia home gets...
Dec 13 2011 // The broker/specialty markets division at Church Mutual Insurance Co. has expanded opportunities for brokers and agents with experience in the senior living market. Specifically, the insurer is looking to add producers in...
Nov 8 2011 // A Charleston nursing home is challenging a $91 million damage award in a lawsuit stemming from the death of an elderly woman hours after she left the facility.Lawyers for Heartland of Charleston claim in a recent court...
Nov 7 2011 // A Kanawha County, West Virginia judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours...
Oct 26 2011 // A court in Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled that a nursing home should pay more than $1 million to a resident who was severely injured in a fall in an equipment storage room.Irene Hendrix was in her late 80s and had been...
Oct 24 2011 // A Kanawha County, West Virginia judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours...
Oct 17 2011 // The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president’s signature health overhaul law — a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial...
Oct 14 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has introduced a companion policy for existing insurance clients to complement its suite of professional and general liability coverages for nursing home...
Sep 30 2011 // Millennium Brokerage Group (MBG) has launched a new long term care (LTC) program that will be available to physicians and their families through AMA Insurance Agency’s Physician Financial Partners program. Physicians...
Sep 30 2011 // Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state’s Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million jury award should be reduced under the state’s medical malpractice law.In...
Aug 9 2011 // A jury in Kanawha County, West Virginia has awarded $91.5 million in damages to the family of an 87-year-old woman who died after her stay at a Charleston nursing home. The jury ruled that Heartland of Charleston failed to...
Jun 17 2011 // Long term care liability costs are rising because the average claim size is increasing even as claim frequency declines.There has been a four percent increase in the average claim size, according to research by Aon Risk...
Jun 7 2011 // WKF&C PRO has added a new assisted living facilities program. The new program is available on non-admitted paper in all states except Alaska and certain counties in Fla., (Miami-Dade, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough,...
Apr 4 2011 // K&B Underwriters, LLC, an insurance program administrator, has enhanced its senior living program and rebranded the program as DigniCARE Risk Solutions.The enhancements include a new A.M. Best “A+” rated...
Dec 17 2010 // The families of two of the eight people shot and killed at a North Carolina nursing home last year have sued, saying the home didn’t do enough to protect residents.Seven residents and a nurse were killed and two...
Nov 22 2010 // The family of a man who died after nine days in a Madisonville nursing home has won a $42.75 million verdict. Attorney Lisa Circeo argued in court that 92-year-old Joseph Clint Offutt died because Harborside of...
Nov 14 2010 // With the first of 77 million baby boomers nearing retirement age in 2011, assisted living facilities and nursing home facilities will play a more important role than ever before. About three million Americans will require...
Oct 4 2010 // 124Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that investigators have identified 124 people with active arrest warrants who were residents or staff members of nursing homes for elderly residents. Madigan said they...
Sep 22 2010 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that investigators have identified 124 people with active arrest warrants who were residents or staff members of nursing homes for elderly residents.Madigan said they were...