At Hughey Law Firm, we regularly handle 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 a nursing home.  Unlike nursing homes, they are not regulated on the […]

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Elizabeth Leis Newman Today in the annals of Nursing Homes That Should Know Better, we turn our attention to a rural part of Tennessee. There was an excellent Washington Post story over the weekend that ran about a food truck traveling through rural Appalachia. One of the families featured has five children who are hungry […]

Nursing home slapped with $1.5 million fine over smoking policy enforcement, supervision A Virginia nursing home faces a $1.45 million verdict in a negligence suit involving a former resident who sustained severe burns. The resident, Joseph Roberts, brought the charges in 2011. In June of that year, he sustained severe burns while residing at Carriage […]

I, South Carolina nursing home attorney Nathan Hughey, have handled hundreds of nursing home cases.  That’s right.  Hundreds.  I began my career at a law firm that was hired by the nursing homes to defend them in South Carolina nursing home abuse claims and South Carolina nursing home wrongful death claims.  As a Charleston nursing […]