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Federal lawsuit filed alleging sexual assault, inadequate security.  We have a #premisesliability lawsuit now alleging wrongful death as a result of inadequate security and have handled several others. Four Students File Federal Lawsuit Against UConn November 01, 2013|By KATHLEEN MEGAN, [email protected], The Hartford Courant HARTFORD — Three current students and one recent graduate filed a federal lawsuit Friday […]

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Elderly, At Risk, and Haphazardly Protected by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Jonathan Jones, Special to ProPublica, Oct. 29, 2013, 10:56 a.m. A version of this story was co-published by “Frontline.” Workers found 82-year-old Vincenzina Pontoni submerged in a deep whirlpool bathtub. She had drowned. Pontoni, a resident of an assisted living facility near Cleveland, wasn’t […]

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Emeritus Assisted Living attempts’ to spin PBS Frontline and ProPublica’s expose on Emeritus’ facilities and injuries which have occurred there are seen below.  Assisted Living Neglect, Assisted Living Abuse Lawyers at Hughey Law Firm.  Injury Lawyer Nathan Hughey has handled assisted living elopement cases, assisted living wrongful death claims, South Carolina assisted living abuse claims, […]

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Charleston Hospital Malpractice lawyer Nathan Hughey shares this Frontline story: How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? It seems that every time researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital patient’s death, the numbers come out worse. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous “To Err Is Human” […]

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We have had numerous wrongful death and other assisted living cases resolve recently, having had a wrongful death settlement hearing yesterday and having another Monday. George McAfee Born: March 13, 1918 Died: March 4, 2009 The Emeritus Facility: Emeritus at Decatur, Decatur, Ga. As a star running back with Chicago Bears in the 1940s and 1950s, George […]

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South Carolina has protections in place for children at Day Care Centers.  If you believe you have been the victim of Charleston day care neglect, or South Carolina day care abuse, please contact Mt. Pleasant day care abuse attorney Nathan Hughey or the day care wrongful death attorneys at Hughey Law Firm Injury Lawyers. We […]

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