Our nursing home abuse clients are always surprised when we tell them about the kind of insurance nursing homes usually have. We tell them nursing homes basically do not have insurance. Our clients then respond by asking, “Doesn’t the Florida Legislature require insurance?” The answer to that question is that the Legislature has failed to [...]
More and more in our personal injury practice, we are seeing arbitration agreements that have been signed by our clients at the request of businesses and nursing homes trying to avoid responsibility for their negligence.
The agreements provide that the resident gives up the right to file a lawsuit in court and ask for a jury [...]
Your mother used to tell you to “play nice.” What she meant was don’t hit your friends, don’t yell at them, don’t ignore them, don’t take things away from them, share and don’t call them names. Your mom usually told you to “play nice” when you were violating one of these rules. You were probably [...]
If you are young, you are probably not thinking about feeding tubes. If you are middle aged, you may be thinking about feeding tubes in relation to elderly parents but not yourself. If you are elderly, time is running out to think about feeding tubes.
Of course no one likes to think about feeding tubes. And, [...]