At Hughey Law Firm, we regularly handle many different types of abuse, neglect, and wrongful death cases.  These include cases against assisted living facilities, including South Carolina assisted living abuse claims, Charleston assisted living neglect claims, and SC assisted living wrongful death lawsuits. Assisted Living or Community Residential Care Facilities are basically one step below […]

ASHEVILLE — A lawsuit claims negligence on the part of the Buncombe County Board of Education and Roberson High football coach Jim Beatty contributed to the death of a student who was run over by ATV at the school. An administrator for the estate of Donald “Donnie” Boyer Crotty filed the complaint in Buncombe County […]

Emeritus Senior Living, the country’s largest assisted living company, has agreed to pay up to $2.2 million to settle claims that it routinely underpaid workers at dozens of its California facilities. Hands-on workers at Emeritus facilities – the non-salaried aides and support staff who statewide help care for hundreds of often frail seniors – alleged […]

Assisted Living Facilities are run by companies who are out for profit.  They aggressively market the facilities because the bottom line is to produce profits, not to provide care.  There is zero compassion, only greed. Patricia McGinnis is the executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. She told FRONTLINE that the for-profit model […]

Myrtle Beach Injury Lawyer Nathan Hughey – Myrtle Beach Accident Attorneys Hughey Law Firm.  We have handled numerous cases in Myrtle Beach including Myrtle Beach automobile accident settlements, Myrtle Beach drunk driving lawyer claims, Myrtle Beach slip and fall lawsuits, Myrtle Beach dram shop claims, and similar matters. We have had cases in Myrtle Beach […]

Billy Howard/PBS Cheryl Morgan holds a photo of her father, who died after drinking dishwashing liquid in an assisted living facility in Georgia. Ms. Morgan is featured in a new PBS documentary, “Life and Death in Assisted Living.” Assisted living underwent a big growth spurt in the 1990s as major corporations built and bought facilities, […]