All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...