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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SC Nursing Home Lawyer Nathan Hughey Charleston Nursing Home Lawyer Nathan Hughey reached a settlement this week in a nursing home case in which we alleged that the nursing home covered up an incident where our client suffered bi-lateral fractures.  There was no mention of it whatsoever in the client’s records.  They only revealed “fractures […]

Nursing Home Case Settled Nicely. Family was told it was a “fracture of unknown origin”. Turns out failing to use the proper lift and dropping a resident was the origin after we investigated.

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 […]