Oklahoma ranks in the bottom 5 of all states in Medicare rating system for nursing homes in United States An exhaustive study recently released by the Kaiser Family Foundation compared the rankings of nursing homes nationwide.The Study analyzed the Medicare (CMS)...
In another victory for the right of a trial by jury, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a nursing home arbitration agreement. In Johnson v. Convalescent Center of Grady County, LLC, 2014 OK 102, the Supreme Court held that if an arbitration agreement is signed by...
In an extremely conservative jurisdiction, Lloyd & Lloyd recently obtained a $300,000 judgment against a nursing home for a fall injury that caused facial injuries and a broken nose. This judgment includes a $100,000 award for punitive damages against the nursing...
Frequently, nursing home administration will complain that they simply do not have the resources to provide the level of care that their residents need. Basically, they will argue that it’s unreasonable to expect that a nursing home could, for example, have enough...
Like it has done for the past decade, the Oklahoma Legislature recently killed a bill that would have required all nursing homes to have liability insurance. Senate Bill 1355 would have forced nursing home owners to purchase $250,000 of liability insurance that would...