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- Hospitals, Doctors, Chamber Join Nursing Homes' Lobbying For Panels To Make Initial Reviews Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Under fresh pressure from a coalition of health care and business groups, state lawmakers are discussing the long-lobbied idea to submit medical-malpractice lawsuits to review panels that could give initial opinions about their merit. The Kentucky Hospital...
- Bill To Shield Nursing Homes From Lawsuits Clears Senate Along Party Lines; Not Looking Healthy In House Despite Tv, Radio Ads
Last week the state Senate approved on party lines a bill that would make lawsuits against nursing homes go through a review panel first. Republicans supported the bill and Democrats voted against it in a 23-12 vote that marked the clearest...
- Nursing Homes Push For Lawsuit Protection With Fast-moving Bill And Broadcast Ads; Newspaper Editorials Excoriate Sponsor, Industry
A state Senate committee has approved a bill that would require lawsuits against nursing homes to clear a review panel before going to court, a move that has drawn very sharp criticism from the editorial pages of the state's two largest newspapers....
- Jury Tells Nursing Home: Pay $8 Million To Estate Of Man Whose Legs Employees Broke; Homes Seek Legislative Insulation From Suits
A Louisville nursing home was ordered to pay $8 million in damages last week to the estate of a retired surgeon whose legs were broken while he was being transferred from a chair to his bed at Treyton Oak Towers. He died less than two months later. The...
- Nursing Homes Want Panel To Review Lawsuits Against Them
"A long-term care industry group wants a new law in Kentucky that would create medical review panels to evaluable potential lawsuits against nursing homes, personal care homes and some facilities for the intellectually and developmentally disabled," reports...
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Effort to boost oral health in nursing homes gets tangled up with industry's attempt to insulate itself from lawsuits; both bills die
A bill to get nursing-home residents better dental services "appears to be dead after the Senate added language from another bill designed to shield the nursing-home industry from litigation," Deborah Yetter reports for The Courier-Journal.
House Bill 510 would have created a pilot project for the state's two dental schools to create "a program to provide better oral-health services to nursing home residents," Yetter writes. "But on Wednesday, the Senate Health and Welfare Committee added language from another bill that had stalled in the House that would require people who want to file malpractice lawsuits against nursing homes to first submit the complaint to a 'medical review panel'." (Read more)
House Bill 510 would have created a pilot project for the state's two dental schools to create "a program to provide better oral-health services to nursing home residents," Yetter writes. "But on Wednesday, the Senate Health and Welfare Committee added language from another bill that had stalled in the House that would require people who want to file malpractice lawsuits against nursing homes to first submit the complaint to a 'medical review panel'." (Read more)
- Hospitals, Doctors, Chamber Join Nursing Homes' Lobbying For Panels To Make Initial Reviews Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Under fresh pressure from a coalition of health care and business groups, state lawmakers are discussing the long-lobbied idea to submit medical-malpractice lawsuits to review panels that could give initial opinions about their merit. The Kentucky Hospital...
- Bill To Shield Nursing Homes From Lawsuits Clears Senate Along Party Lines; Not Looking Healthy In House Despite Tv, Radio Ads
Last week the state Senate approved on party lines a bill that would make lawsuits against nursing homes go through a review panel first. Republicans supported the bill and Democrats voted against it in a 23-12 vote that marked the clearest...
- Nursing Homes Push For Lawsuit Protection With Fast-moving Bill And Broadcast Ads; Newspaper Editorials Excoriate Sponsor, Industry
A state Senate committee has approved a bill that would require lawsuits against nursing homes to clear a review panel before going to court, a move that has drawn very sharp criticism from the editorial pages of the state's two largest newspapers....
- Jury Tells Nursing Home: Pay $8 Million To Estate Of Man Whose Legs Employees Broke; Homes Seek Legislative Insulation From Suits
A Louisville nursing home was ordered to pay $8 million in damages last week to the estate of a retired surgeon whose legs were broken while he was being transferred from a chair to his bed at Treyton Oak Towers. He died less than two months later. The...
- Nursing Homes Want Panel To Review Lawsuits Against Them
"A long-term care industry group wants a new law in Kentucky that would create medical review panels to evaluable potential lawsuits against nursing homes, personal care homes and some facilities for the intellectually and developmentally disabled," reports...