Category: San Francisco Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 65 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 do from dishonest in-home caregivers.  Theft […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 78-Year-Old Dies After Being Pushed Resident Of Memory Care Facility Incident Caught On Surveillance Camera Sadly, 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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims For Medicaid Payments Alleged Accused Of Inadequate Staffing And No Hot Water Licensing Irregularities Healthcare fraud, including fraud against Medicare and Medicaid, is the biggest kind of fraud perpetrated against the government.  When the targeted patients are elders, such fraud cases may also constitute elder abuse […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Three Elderly Facility Residents Died After Drinking Cleaning Solution Attorney General Weighing Charges Against Facility One Walnut Creek Facility Worker Previously Arrested Rob Bonta, California’s Attorney General may soon decide whether a Bay Area senior living provider will face charges in the poisoning deaths of three seniors who […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Abuse Of Wheelchair-Bound Patient Facility Director Accused Of Cover Up Victim’s Daughter Reports Abuse Stories of intentional abuse of dependent adults can be difficult to read.  In a recently reported case, discussed below, a family member of a senior found her covered with bruises in a dark […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Neglect And Reckless Care Of Hospice Patient Untreated Injuries And Infection Lead To Sudden Death Sepsis and Gangrene Elder abuse is not confined to assisted living facilities and nursing homes or abuse and neglect by in-home caregivers. Hospice programs throughout California and the U.S. have also been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Abuse Of Barricaded, Disabled Man Two Caregivers Charges With Failure To Report Caregivers Charged With Murder, Elder Abuse, And Neglect Stories of intentional abuse of dependent adults can be difficult to read.  A few weeks ago, we wrote on one such case where an elderly victim was beaten […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home To Pay $2.3 Million Allegations Of Grossly Substandard Care Government Payments For Allegedly Substandard Services Skilled nursing facilities and assisted care communities often receive government funding for the care they provide residents.  Fraudulent claims for payments of those government funds may be the basis for a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two Residents Dead From Alleged Poisoning Served Dishwashing Liquid Instead Of Juice Family Of One Deceased Victim Suing Facility Dementia sufferers are extremely vulnerable to abuse and neglect because they may not even be aware of what is happening to them or able to communicate about it even […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Owner/Operator Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison 51 Counts Of Financial Exploitation Of Disabled Person Residents Deprived Of Food And Care Financial abuse of elder and dependent adults often goes hand in hand with neglect of those victims as well.  This is often because the in-home caregiver or […]