Nursing Home Abuse

New York Legislators Seek to Establish $4 Billion Nursing Home Victims Compensation Fund Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim is the sponsor of a bill that will establish a large nursing home victims [...]

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo enacted a controversial law granting nursing homes and other essential businesses immunity from lawsuits. The law, known as [...]

New York AARP Asks Governor Cuomo to Implement Nursing Home Reforms Since Covid-19 began to spread about a year ago, the number of nursing home deaths has skyrocketed – nursing home residents [...]

Can You File a Lawsuit in NY or Other States For Abuse or Neglect in a Nursing Home? In December 2020, the family of Jakob Khorsandi and two other families filed lawsuits against Silverado Senior [...]

Attorney General Releases Results of Investigation Into Covid-19 Deaths in New York Nursing Homes In a 76-page report published January 28, NY Attorney General Leticia James’s office (OAG) [...]

Professor Reminds Us That “Nursing Home Horrors” Go Beyond Covid-19 In a December 1, 2020 opinion article in the New York Post (“the Post”), Professor Charles Camosy provided a grim reminder that [...]

Fox Reports: Nursing Home Neglect Has Caused “Excess” Deaths Since the Start of the Pandemic In a recent article, Fox News reported that it is not just Covid-19 that has resulted in an alarming [...]

Covid-19 Puts Nursing Home Residents At Risk As Covid-19 has rapidly progressed around the globe, New York is finally beginning to emerge from the darkness. After months of isolation and strict [...]

Trump Administration Simplifies Nursing Home Comparison Tools In a press release issued by CMS.gov, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency praised the Trump administration for [...]

Nursing Home Abuse is a National Problem That is Under-Reported Reports released in June 2019 by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG), indicate [...]