At admission to assisted living facility, daughter who was completing documents indicated she wanted to have residency agreement reviewed by…
Plaintiff brought a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)(3)(A) to recover funds for the Medicare program attributable to cigarette smoking. The…
CMS sought to impose a civil monetary penalty on the successor of a fined nursing home where the successor accepted…
A community spouse purchased an actuarially sound single-premium irrevocable annuity for $250,000 for the purpose of spending down excess assets…
The district court granted insurer's motion to defense where insurer claimed it had no duty to defend case where the…
A physician brought a qui tam action against two other physicians and several health care providers after a nurse showed…
The court identifies this litigation as a "grudge match." When counsel spent the first 30 pages of a deposition reviewing…
This is not a nursing home case. Justice Scalia, writing for the Court, framed the issue as whether a court…
In Arkansas Dept. Health and Human Services v. Ahlborn, 547 U.S. 268 (2006), Heidi Ahlborn suffered severe and permanent injuries at age…
Suit was filed after a CNA failed to check the water temperature before bathing resident; resident was burned and died…