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• Smoking in Nursing Homes Can Be Fatal

  Dan Frith | August 28, 2008 3:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The stories are in our newspapers and on the television every year or so. A fire breaks out at a local nursing home, most likely caused by a carelessly handled cigarette, and multiple residents lose...

• Medical Marketing: What is it and can it Hurt?

  Dan Frith | August 27, 2008 2:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Most physicians in the United States have financial relationships with the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Those relationships range from the acceptance of meals to the receipt of...

• Medical Errors in Surgical Patients Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion Annually

  Dan Frith | August 25, 2008 9:17 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  My wife and I had dinner this weekend with a couple who are our very best friends. The wife is a very successful insurance executive and, over dinner and wine, the conversation turned to the costs...

• Lawsuits Protect Consumers! Who Said That?

  Dan Frith | August 19, 2008 10:22 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Most people would believe that only a trial lawyer would say "lawsuits protect consumers." You know...those greedy trial lawyers who do nothing positive for our society or economy. But do you know...

• Tragedy and Death at a Virginia Nursing Home

  Dan Frith | August 17, 2008 1:19 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  What a sad story! The body of a 71-year-old man missing from Bowling Green Healthcare Center (Caroline County, Virginia) nursing home since August 3 has been found. Robertson suffered from dementia....

• Sprinkler Systems in Nursing Homes

  Dan Frith | August 15, 2008 9:57 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  I live in Virginia and our state law requires sprinkler systems in nursing homes and other long term care facilities...I thought all states did...but I was wrong. Even the federal government doesn't...

• The FDA and the Wall Street Journal: Dumb and Dumber

  Dan Frith | August 14, 2008 10:51 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial yesterday (August 13) titled, "Devices for Lawyers." The piece was very critical of trial lawyers in America for lobbying Congress to pass the "Medical...

• Nursing Homes Just Can't Kick You Out!

  Dan Frith | August 09, 2008 6:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on August 7 about America's nursing homes wrongfully discharging residents. The article states that one in seven discharges from Washington, DC...

• WhoCanISue.Com - Disgusting!

  Dan Frith | August 07, 2008 10:29 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I am a trial lawyer and damn proud of it! My firm's work helps individuals going through difficult times...the death of a father due to medical neglect....the abuse and neglect of of 90 year old...

• Sexual Assault in Nursing Home

  Dan Frith | August 06, 2008 8:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  This is a disturbing report! An employee at an Alice, Texas nursing home reported to police that a 64-year-old male resident was seen sexually assaulting a 65-year-old female resident. This is bad...