Posts tagged negligence

• Inadequate staff levels tied to falls

  Barry Doyle | July 23, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A Rhode Island nursing home has been ordered to increase staffing levels in order to prevent residents from falling. A survey of the home resulted in immediate jeopardy findings by public health officials after they found several residents had fallen multiple times because of inadequate supervision due to low staff levels.At least three residents were injured as a result of falling, including...

• Heart Surgery Patients Left in the Dark Due to Patented Conflicts of Interest

  Jordan Margolis | May 28, 2011 8:31 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Patients with leaky heart values and other life-threatening medical conditions put their lives and trust in their doctors' hands when they are wheeled into the surgery room. They already know the...

• Caution on the Course: Golf Safety Under Par

  Nick Avgerinos | July 25, 2008 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  We’re well into summer, and that means we’re accustomed to its rituals of relaxation: backyard barbeques, poolside lounging, and—for many—the game of golf. Whether you’re the next Tiger Woods or...

• Lawsuit filed against Blue Man Group

  Tony Romanucci | February 04, 2008 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Although wildly popular across the country, BMG carried one of its stunts too far. Romanucci & Blandin, LLC filed a lawsuit against BMG for its esphogeal camera stunt gone wrong. The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday as follows: If you haven't seen the act that's mentioned in the suit, it goes something like this: A rhythmic thump of rock music serves as the soundtrack to the commotion near...

• R U 4 Real? Possible Texting Ban Recognizes Danger of Technological Trances

  Nick Avgerinos | August 08, 2008 10:47 AM | 3 CommentsRockford & Moline, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  We love to multi-task. And companies are responding with gadgets that allow us to do more things with less time. The biggest culprit for blurring the home-work divide: the Blackberry. But it’s...

• $12 Million Police Shooting Verdict Against Chicago Police department

  Tony Romanucci | December 17, 2007 9:09 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In one of the largest awards ever in a Chicago Police shooting, a Cook County jury Thursday said the city must pay $12 million to the family of a 23-year-old unarmed man whose death was caught on a CTA station security video now heavily viewed on YouTube. That tops the 2003 award of $9.6 million in the police shooting of Northwestern University student Robert Russ, but is less than the 2001...

• Project results on 75% reduction in bed sores

  Barry Doyle | July 25, 2007 8:00 AM | 1 CommentCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Researchers in New Jersey recently announced the results of a project which was intended to reduce the development of bed sores in patients in health care institutions. Bed sores are technically known as pressure ulcers and are caused by unrelieved pressure on the skin, usually on bony prominences. The unrelieved pressure results in tissue death, which causes pain for the patient and...

• Morphine overdose kills nursing home resident

  Barry Doyle | May 08, 2007 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A Washington woman has filed suit against the nursing home where her mother resided. The suit alleges that the nursing home staff was negligent in administering morphine to her mother.The suit follows a finding by the local coroner that a morphine overdose led to the death of the patient.There are some basic things that have to be verified before a nurse gives medication to a patient, especially...

• Fall from mechanical lift causes patient death

  Barry Doyle | April 23, 2007 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A California nursing home was fined $100,000 by the state after a resident fell from a mechanical lift as she was being moved from her bed to chair by a nursing aide.The resident suffered blunt trauma and a lacerated liver which caused her death.All members of the nursing home staff must be properly trained in their jobs and in the use of the equipment that they use as part of their jobs. When...

• Nursing home resident scalded

  Barry Doyle | February 05, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A California nursing home resident suffered significant scalding injuries when she was exposed to 145 degree water while seated in a shower. After she was burned, the CNA did not call 911, but put her to bed instead. Investigators learned that the facility had a policy against permitting non-supervisory staff to call 911.The resident suffered third-degree burns on over 60% of her body as a...