Category: San Francisco Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Generally Consent Required Using Cameras to Monitor Care California Regulations For Camera Installation As a general rule, California requires 2-party consent for audio and video recordings.  See Cal. Penal Code §§ 632(recording confidential communications without consent is invasion of privacy) and 637.2(penalties on persons recording without consent for […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Does Not Apply Elders And Dependent Adults Entitled To Full Non-Economic Damages Two Former Patients Suffered Sexual Abuse By Hospital Employee Elders and dependent adults living in nursing homes or other care facilities are at risk of rape and other sexual abuse by employees.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Business Manager Allegedly Wrote Resident’s Checks To Herself Appropriation Of Government Benefits False Adjustments In Residents’ Accounts Just like seniors under the care of unscrupulous caregivers in their own home, elderly residents of nursing homes are also at risk of financial elder abuse from financial predators within the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Violence Allegedly Caught On Surveillance Camera Camera Catches Abuse Of Dementia Patient Facility Manager Faces Four Charges Of Elder Abuse Many dementia sufferers and Alzheimer’s disease patients reside in memory care or assisted living facilities.  Nearly 50% of elders with dementia experience abuse or neglect according to reports  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegation That Advisor Recommended Inadequate Facility Facility Was Allegedly Not Equipped To Care For Elder Allegations That Records Were Altered To Qualify Patient For Facility Certain skilled nursing facility or assisted care facility residents require some particular type of care or monitoring.  Bedridden patients require frequent turning so […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Police Use DNA Evidence To Identify Suspect Victim Has No Memory Of Anything Another Employee Reports Suspicions Nursing home residents are at risk of all varieties of elder abuse including sexual assault and rape. Statistics show that 20,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and rape in nursing homes […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Allegedly Stole Checks From Eight Residents Checks Forged And Cashed Out Of State Arrest For Numerous Criminal Counts Theft of cash, checks or credits card is a constant risk for seniors who have caregivers or other strangers enter their, particularly if the senior lives alone.  But seniors […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Negligence Allegedly Behind Death Of  86-Year-Old  Accusations Of Abandonment Of Assisted Care Facility Resident Family Recourse For Neglect And Abuse Physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and abandonment are all forms of elder abuse that nursing home and assisted care facility residents may suffer.  See Cal. Welf. & […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Suspect Accused Of Sexual Misconduct At Four Nursing Homes Advocates See Epidemic Of Sexual Assault In Nursing Homes Suspect Kept License Despite Initial Complaints More and more reports of rape and sexual abuse of nursing home residents have surfaced in recent months. The stories are heartbreaking.  Some of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Director Charged  Allegedly Failed To Report Sexual Abuse Two Residents Reportedly Assaulted By Same Aide Intentional abuse in the form of sexual assault and rape or physical abuse and restraint is an increasing danger for nursing home residents.  While all nursing home residents are at risk, […]