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Many Alabamans living in Birmingham, Homewood, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills and surrounding communities might not realize that nursing homes can be dangerous places. In fact, one out of every three nursing home residents who receive treatment suffers injuries, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report on adverse events in nursing homes. A report by...

Families for Better Care produces a nursing home report card each year for all of the states in the United States.  Families for Better Care obtains data from Kaiser Health Foundation, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Compare, and the Offices of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. The state then assesses several key...

The problems of overmedication of seniors have recently been discussed on this blog. Overmedication can have deadly consequences, but an experienced nursing home abuse lawyer knows that chemical restraints using antipsychotic medications are not the only danger that nursing home residents face. A failure to get the medications that have been prescribed is also another...

In Birmingham, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills and surrounding locations, senior citizens live in nursing home care facilities where they depend upon staff members to provide adequate care. It is especially common for people with dementia to live in a nursing home setting once these individuals are no longer able to take care of themselves....

In July 2003, a senior lost her life five weeks after she was removed from a nursing home. The senior had suffered continual neglect that resulted in malnutrition and bedsores. She had also sustained head injuries in a fall. Her care was so egregious that a jury awarded the victim's family a damage award of...

An underride accident occurs when a car slides underneath the body of a truck. These types of devastating truck collisions can leave victims severely disfigured or paralyzed. Brain injury, broken spines, amputation and death are common when underride accidents occur. A truck accident lawyer knows that underride guards are intended to prevent these serious accidents...

In the United States today, there are far more truck drivers retiring than there are new drivers entering the profession. This is exacerbating a problem that already exists: there are too many trucking jobs and not enough truckers. This issue has been brewing for years, although the recession masked some of the risks because truck...

By federal law, nursing homes are required to report "any and all allegations of abuse or neglect to ensure resident safety." Unfortunately, as any personal injury lawyer knows, many incidents of abuse are never properly documented. A recent report published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services demonstrated the scope of underreporting. Unfortunately,...