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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - The Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act of 2005 is an important piece of legislation that can be used to prevent financial elder abuse. The Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act of 2005 specifically added employees of financial institutions - such as banks, credit unions, and savings and loans - as mandated reporters of financial [...]
By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
A troubling modern trend has recently emerged where younger and stronger mentally ill patients are being housed with the elderly in nursing homes. On some occasions this has resulted in attacks on the elderly by their mentally ill roommates at the nursing homes. The primary reason for this increase [...]
By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - An jury awarded a verdict of $11 million today to the widow of a man with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who died after ingesting foreign objects while being cared for by Liberty Manor Residency, an assisted living facility. The verdict included $4 million in punitive damages [...]
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - In 2004, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the use at trial of out of court statements made to police by an unavailable witness violated a criminal defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him. In Crawford v. Washington, the Supreme Court of the United States barred the [...]
By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
NOVATO, CALIFORNIA – Susan Dixon, a registered nurse in Novato, recently pleaded guilty to criminal charges of felony elder abuse for injecting a massive dose of morphine into her 80‑year‑old mother. The acts took place while her mother was under her direct care, and had she gone to [...]
By: Matthew A. Paré, Attorney at Law
LAKE ISABELLA, CALIFORNIA – The California Attorney General’s office investigated the Kern Valley Healthcare District’s skilled nursing facility and found it to be engaging in serious acts of medical mismanagement through the over-prescribing and use of several different drugs. In particular, the use of the psychotropic drugs Zyprexa, Resperidol [...]
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