I get a few calls a week from individuals and businesses with contract disputes, so I often lose sight of the fact that the law of contracts is not walking around knowledge. For quick reference…
The nation’s largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes…
Do you know how often a developer who clears land, paves it, and changes its contours has increased the volume and changed the path rain runoff takes as it flows across that land? Especially…
The short form designed to allow claimants to join the Multi-District Litigation currently ongoing in New Orleans is due by Wednesday, April 20, 2011. There is no fee to file, and it can be filed…
How should facilities handle remains of residents after they’ve passed away? If your family member or loved one resides in a nursing home or assisted living facility, do you know the facility’s…
Thousands of women across the United States will be recognizing Equal Pay Day on April 12, 2011. The National Committee on Pay Equity reports that women are paid an average of only 75- 77 cents for…
Though it is flying low under the radar, the time to join the lawsuit against the Federal government in Cobell v. Salazar is reaching a close. The deadline to join in the settlement for monies to be…
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court may give that currently right-leaning body the opportunity to kill the class-action suit. Hard to believe that it’s even possible, given the extent of the…
A recent California jury verdict in a quasi-class action suit against the owner of 22 nursing homes in that state awarded 32,000 plaintiffs a total of $677 million in damages. Skilled Healthcare…
The similarities to Exxon-Valdez should not be so plentiful, but unfortunately they are as numerous and clear as the Gulf is murky. Twenty years after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, that region has yet…
60 Minutes’ Interview of crewmember Mike Williams, who describes the minutes before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion: I hear the engines revving. The lights are glowing. I’m hearing the…
While it is undisputed that there are a continuing litany of errors associated with BP’s handling of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, there is one gross oversight no one seems to be…