A five-star rating system designed more than a decade ago to assess the quality of care at U.S. nursing homes is badly broken. That’s the conclusion of an in-depth New York Times investigation, which concludes many of these facilities manipulate the data to improve...
No reasonable person who engages with traffic in the vast and varied Chicago metro area underestimates the road risks routinely linked with its constant flow. Candidly, the myriad streets, state highways and interstate corridors that crisscross one of the nation’s...
Many nursing home residents that did not get COVID-19 are also suffering the consequences of the virus. Patient neglect complaints have risen alarmingly in the wake of the pandemic. While COVID-19 is seen as the major threat to residents of long-term care facilities,...
MARTIN LAW, LLC recently secured a $700,000 settlement on behalf of a client who fell 25 feet from a recreational climbing facility when he was a young teenager. As a result of the fall, he suffered compression fractures in his spine. The fall was caused by the...