More and more frequently, health care providers such as hospitals and nursing homes are seeking to prevent those whom they injure via negligence, abuse, and malpractice from having their day in court. They often do this in a very surreptitious way, such that many litigants are not even aware that…
For several years now, there has been a concerted effort to limit the legal rights of those who might seek to file a Knoxville nursing home abuse lawsuit. Typically, a representative of the nursing home begins this process by asking the patient or someone in his or her family to…
Doctors, nurses, hospitals, and nursing homes have a strong aversion to being sued. Of course, no one wants to be accused of carelessness or wrongdoing, and defendants facing claims of nursing home negligence or patient abuse are no different. However, as compared to many other defendants, the medical establishment goes…
It has been frequently stated that a society should be measured by the quality of care it gives to its youngest, sickest, and oldest citizens. According to a recent Nursing Home Report Card from Families for Better Care, Tennessee was given a D in overall nursing home care. Tennessee Nursing…