Category: Nursing Home
New Illinois Laws in the New Year
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Auto/Car Crashes, Bicycle Crash, Bike Accidents, Legal Rights, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, Truck Crashes Bicyclists, nursing home residents and commercial truck drivers are among the Illinois residents who will be affected by new laws that take effect in 2017. Attorney Grant Dixon, founder of Dixon Law Office, helps personal injury clients navigate laws –Continue reading
Proposed Rules Would Ban Forced Arbitration Clauses
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories forced arbitration, Legal Terms, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Serious Injury The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently proposed regulations that would ban forced arbitration clauses in all contracts that involve consumer credit transactions. As described in this ThinkProgress article, the rules aim to stop banks, credit card companies and other financialContinue reading
New 2017 Illinois Laws
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Auto/Car Crashes, Bike Accidents, Legal Rights, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, workers compensation Bicyclists, nursing home residents and commercial truck drivers are among the Illinois residents who will be affected by new laws that take effect in 2017. Attorney Grant Dixon, founder of Dixon Law Office, helps personal injury clients navigate laws –Continue reading
Big Success for Seminar
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, insurance claims, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, seminar, wrongful death This past Saturday, Dixon Law Office along with the Law Offices of Noreen Costelloe, hosted a seminar titled Protecting Your Assets from the High Cost of Aging. Dixon Law Office founder, G. Grant Dixon III, discussed liability insurance and gaveContinue reading
Elopement Injuries
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death When a couple elopes, they run away to get married. In a nursing home, if someone elopes, the resident leaves the facility without the knowledge of staff. In nursing homes, elopement is always a bad thing. Patients with mental diseasesContinue reading
Bedsores in Nursing Homes
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, wrongful death Bedsores, also called pressure ulcers or pressure sores, are preventable. A pressure ulcer happens when the skin is damaged through friction or lack of oxygen to the skin. So, for example, if your loved one is left in one positionContinue reading
Attacks in a Nursing Home
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death Keeping your loved one safe is a serious and important responsibility of every nursing home. Sadly, the staff often does a poor job of preventing the most serious dangers, attacks by other residents. Attacks by other residents can occur forContinue reading
Abuse in a Nursing Home
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death You trust a nursing home to keep your loved one safe. Sadly, these attacks happen much more commonly than we want to admit. Early studies showed that residents self-reported abuse between 1% and 10% of the time. This number isContinue reading
Choking to Death in Nursing Homes
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Food Injuries, injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death Years ago, a man had a stroke that left him unable to chew solid food. His family made the tough choice to place him in a nursing home because his care was just more than they could do. They thoughtContinue reading
The Fall That Kills
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, slip and fall, wrongful death When our loved one goes into a nursing home, we assume the nursing home will keep them safe. We assume that our loved one will get the medical care they need. And, we assume that preventable injuries will be prevented.Continue reading