Personal Injury Q and A

Nursing home abuse or neglect is a danger that a number of elderly parents have suffered from in their last days. When you entrust your loved one in the care of a nursing home you expect them to make their last days as peaceful as possible. This is, unfortunately, not always the case.

Los Angeles County officials are investigating allegations that certain staff members at the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center took gifts from nursing home employees in exchange for placing Medicare and Medi-Cal patients at their facilities.

A bicyclist has been injured in a Newport Beach car accident, after he was hit by a car at the intersection of Jamboree Road and Bison Avenue the morning of December 9, 2009, The Orange County Register reports. The driver of the car did not stop and left the scene of the accident. The bicycle [...]

Nursing home abuse and negligence as well as other elder abuse complaints are severely underreported in California. According to a news report in The Orange County Register and also, based on recent findings from the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes, serious deficiencies exist in California's approach to detecting and responding to elder abuse [...]

As California nursing home abuse and negligence attorneys, we are extremely concerned about the escalating rate of neglect and abuse in our nation's nursing homes. According to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, California leads the list of states with the most number of distressed nursing homes in the country. This is cause for [...]

Placerville Pines Care Center in Sacramento is facing $100,000 in fines after state inspectors alleged that nursing home negligence caused the death of a patient at the facility. According to a news report in KCRA News, the Placerville nursing home got an AA citation from the California Department of Public Health. Investigators say the facility [...]

At a time when incidents of California nursing home abuse and negligence are rampant, a new study has found the government program that is meant to increase the level of scrutiny of poorly performing nursing homes still leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities. According to an Associated Press news report, the Centers for Medicare and [...]

California Health Department officials are looking into recent allegations of nursing home abuse based on a letter received by ABC7 News from Diana Harden. According to an ABC news report, Diana Harden mailed out the letter prior to killing her disabled daughter, Yvette, who was a resident at the Oakland Springs Health Center in Oakland, [...]

The nursing home abuse attorneys at BISNAR | CHASE have been closely following the developments in a Bakersfield area nursing home neglect story where administrators allegedly gave psychotropic medications to their patients so they would remain quiet and easy to manage. According to a news report in the Kern Valley Sun, California Attorney General Edmund [...]

The nursing home abuse lawyers at Bisnar | Chase keep a close watch on California nursing home negligence and abuse cases. According to a news report in the San Bernardino County Sun, California Department of Public Health officials announced that the agency issued a $90,000 fine to the Del Rosa Villa nursing home in San [...]