Category: Nursing Home Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Three Workers In Unlicensed Facility Found Guilty Of Neglect Victims Reportedly Malnourished And Living In Filth Facility Lacked License, Staff, And Equipment Neglect of hospice patients is sadly an increasingly reported form of elder abuse and neglect.  Patients in hospice care are certified as suffering from terminal illness […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Jury Verdict Against For-Profit Nursing Home Patient Developed Stage IV Pressure Wound Alleged Understaffing To Blame We write frequently about the risk of abuse of older persons by in-home caregivers and other strangers who enter older people’s homes.  But nursing home and assisted care facility residents are also […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  Alleged Abuse Of Wheelchair-Bound Patient Director Charged With Failure To Report Victim’s Daughter Discovered Signs Of Abuse Stories of intentional abuse of nursing home residents are especially heartbreaking.  In one case reported earlier this year and discussed below, the daughter of an elderly nursing home resident found her […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents At Risk Of Abuse And Neglect Examples Of Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuits Remedies For Injured Seniors And Families Sadly, seniors under in-home care or residing in nursing homes or assisted care facilities are at risk of physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and abandonment.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Risk of Neglect And Abuse During Hospice Care Hospice Patient Neglect: Case Example Remedies For Neglect And Abuse Hospice patients, like skilled nursing facility and assisted living facility patients, may be at risk of neglect and abuse during the duration of their hospice care.  The neglect could be […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Victims Malnourished, Living In Filth Basic Care Denied Six Facility Residents Facility Lacked Staff, Equipment And Proper License California Attorney General Ron Bonta has made prosecution of elder abuse cases a major priority in the California Department of Justice.  From the beginning of his tenure, he has aggressively […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Victims Were 75 and 83 Both Bodies Found In Room In Facility Live-In Caretaker Arrested In a tragic story reported recently in the Los Angeles Times, two elderly women living in a dementia facility have been found dead in a room of the facility and a live-in caretaker […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 78-Year-Old Victim Death Following Assault Assault Captured On Surveillance Camera Evans Law Firm, Inc. represents elderly victims and families in cases of nursing home abuse and pursue all those responsible for the abuse including any owners or administrators and supervisory persons in charge of any caregiver who abuses […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Unauthorized Checks On Resident Trust Funds $73,521.68 In Restitution Ordered Six Months Jail Sentence Seniors in assisted care or skilled nursing facilities face the risk of financial elder abuse by dishonest staff members similar to the risks seniors living at home face from dishonest in-home caregivers.  Theft of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Aide Pushes 78-Year-Old Down Fall Results In Senior’s Death Surveillance Camera Captured Assault On Film Seniors in assisted care facilities and nursing homes are at risk of abuse and neglect by the very persons paid to care for them.  Stories of intentional abuse of seniors in these settings […]