On Friday, June 27th, The Supreme Court of Texas reversed a $90 million verdict against Werner Enterprises and a driver in a fatal 2014 car crash. The collision killed one and severely injured three others. Werner has long claimed that the driver, Shiraz Ali, was not at fault for this crash and that it couldn’t
The Justice Department announced a False Claims Act settlement. On June 3rd, the US Department of Justice announced that the American Health Foundation (AHF), its affiliate AHF Management Corp, and the 3 affiliated nursing homes agreed to pay $3.61 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act. The settlement addresses claims that between 2016
The media reported the tragic case of Helen Ende, who froze to death outside Parkside Manor assisted living facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Her wrongful death is a devastating example of systemic negligence in long-term care. On a bitterly cold December night in 2022 at around 12:40 a.m., Helen wandered outside, triggering a door alarm that
The $45 million settlement between the New York Attorney General’s Office and Centers for Care LLC is another example of troubling patterns of financial exploitation in the nursing home industry being exposed. Centers for Care, which operates over 30 facilities across New York, and even more facilities across the Northeast United States, misappropriated an estimated
Juries are going “nuclear” by compensating victims with increasing large verdicts against U.S companies. This trend is making insurance policies more costly and harder to come by for those nursing homes that neglect and abuse vulnerable adults. The number of cases where the Jury awards $10 million against corporate defendants, known as “nuclear” verdicts, has
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