Investigators and prosecutors haven’t said what led them to rape charges against a former Dayton nursing home worker accused this month of raping a non-verbal, bed-ridden Mason nursing home patient more than 18 years ago.
However, new court documents obtained by the Dayton Daily News allege the accused man told his girlfriend he committed the same crimes against two other women during the same time period.
By Matt Flener
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. —
A Platte City man critically hurt in a 47-vehicle pileup on Interstate 70 near Oak Grove last month is now involved in an ongoing dispute with his health insurance provider…
Henderson’s family said at least five doctors at Centerpoint have recommended moving him to a long-term acute care hospital, but his insurance provider Coventry Health Care, an Aetna Company, has denied the move.
By Wayne Drash, CNN
In a scathing decision, a federal judge blasted a subsidiary of the nation's largest insurance company for focusing on the "bottom line as much or more" than patients' health, saying the insurer illegally denied treatment to thousands of people. The judge also slammed the company's medical directors for being "deceptive" under oath.
By John Lovett
Attorneys in Fort Smith who previously represented a large Arkansas nursing home group has sued their former clients, AdCare Health Systems, for more than $540,000 in payment for a variety of legal services.
The law firm Hardin Jesson & Terry PLC, which has offices in Fort Smith and Little Rock, sued its former clients AdCare Health Systems Inc., now known as Regional Health Properties Inc. of Atlanta, for allegedly not paying for the legal services it provided.
By Jack Healy
Ramona Labrensz with a photo of her husband Harold at her home in Mobridge, S.D. When the local nursing home where he was living failed, Mr. Labrensz was transferred to another nursing home 220 miles away in North Dakota.
By STEVE HARTMAN
…And it was on one of those visits, that Ruby started going up to residents with her notepad, asking them if they could have any three things, what would they be…
"I was very surprised. I thought people would say money, houses, a Lamborghini," Ruby said.
But, instead, here's what she got: electric razor, new shoes, Vienna sausage, for some reason a lot of people asked for Vienna sausage and other really basic items.
by John Moritz
In newest proposals, gone is control over rules, fees; caps on damages stay