All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2010 // Medical professional liability insurance specialist MMIC Group has expanded its insurance services to the growing population of long term care providers. Eligible facility types include skilled care, assisted living and...
Jun 23 2010 // Paul Marshall has joined ASI Healthcare in Atlanta, a division of American Safety Insurance, as vice president of sales in ASI Healthcare Division. Marshall will be responsible for ASI’s liability products for...
Apr 30 2010 // ASI Healthcare, a division of American Safety Insurance (ASI), now offers an optional Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) coverage form for nursing home, assisted living and elder care facilities. The EIL form covers...
Mar 23 2010 // A California state Senate report said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer...
Mar 2 2010 // Available to California agents, Union General has an “A+” rated carrier offering coverage for all types of basic daily care facilities for the elderly. The company provides physical/sexual abuse coverage, as...
Feb 3 2010 // The owners of a North Carolina assisted living home have declared bankruptcy and could escape responsibility for what a judge called a pattern of neglect by under-trained and understaffed employees.Superior Court Judge...
Jan 12 2010 // Atlanta-based Lewis & Clark LTC RRG, Inc., a nationwide provider of liability insurance to long-term care facilities, has merged with Sophia Palmer Nurses RRG, Inc. of Florida.Sophia Palmer RRG was established in 2006...
Dec 23 2009 // Authorities say a woman who suffered burns in a fire at an assisted living center in Tigard has died.According to Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue, firefighters responded to a blaze at Park Place Assisted Living Center at...
Dec 23 2009 // A Northampton woman claims in a lawsuit filed against the Holyoke nursing home where she worked for three years that she was fired for complaining about improper treatment of patients.Joan Johnson is seeking $56,000 in...
Oct 9 2009 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is calling for unannounced inspections of nursing homes and revised criminal histories of identified offenders living in the facilities.Madigan’s sent a letter on Oct. 7 to the...
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.).Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future Act,...
Sep 16 2009 // Chairman’s Mark America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 TITLE I—HEALTH CARE...
Jun 8 2009 // A jury has awarded $750,000 in damages against an assisted living facility in Newport News, Virginia where a former staffer is accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled resident. Last week’s verdict came in...
May 14 2009 // Legislation easing the burden on the Missouri fire marshal to conduct fire safety inspections at long-term care facilities won final approval.The measure partially revises a law enacted after a November 2006 fire killed 11...
Mar 30 2009 // Available to California agents, Union General Insurance Services Inc. of Concord, Calif., has an “A+” rated carrier offering coverage for all types of basic daily care facilities for the elderly. The market...
Mar 27 2009 // On March 25, Missouri Senators endorsed legislation that would repeal a requirement that fire safety inspections in Missouri long-term care facilities be performed by local fire departments or the state fire...
Mar 10 2009 // Nursing homes were left without electricity and medical evacuees flooded hospitals during Hurricane Ike, but more than a dozen bills pending in the Texas Legislature could help change the way state agencies and facilities...
Feb 11 2009 // A century ago, at the dawn of food safety laws, inspection amounted to little more than opening a bin of flour and looking for something wiggly.It’s a different story now. Solving the case of the poison processed...
Feb 8 2009 // Social workers play a vital role in improving the quality of nursing home residents’ lives. But qualifications of nursing home social workers vary wildly in part because of low federal standards and inconsistent...
Dec 15 2008 // State Rep. Doug Cox of Grove, Okla., who in the last legislative session blocked passage of measure that would have required nursing homes to carry a minimum of $250,000 in liability insurance, says he’s selling his...