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If you have placed someone that you love in a nursing home, signed a healthcare proxy on their behalf, and later decide you want to sue in court for Massachusetts nursing home abuse , or file a Massachusetts wrongful death suit, this blog post is for you. That’s because many Massachusetts nursing home contracts require […]

Nursing home abuse and neglect is, tragically, still a “dirty little secret” for most of society. While public consciousness has been raised in the past two decades due to the efforts of plaintiffs’ tort lawyers and brave families, I don’t think enough people, or enough media, truly appreciate just how pervasive this problem really is. […]

My regrets over not having posted for awhile here, but let’s get back to things today: Normally, as this is blog is about Massachusetts personal injury cases and Massachusetts tort law, I write about plaintiffs’ civil justice issues occurring primarily in this state. However, a recent case verdict out of the state of California offers […]

In my previous post, I reported on the fact that Johnson & Johnson has been dragged into court by the United States Attorney in Boston, accused of hatching an elaborate scheme to press nursing home doctors to prescribe J&J’s anti-psychotic drugs, including Risperdal, to Massachusetts nursing home residents who were not suffering from mental illness […]

In Massachusetts right now, there’s a bit of a war going on between the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. As is so often the case, while the consumer is the party who is supposedly is designed to benefit from these regulatory skirmishes, that isn’t always what results. Have […]