Nursing Home Abuse Blog

GWC attorney Bennett J. Baker filed a lawsuit for a 92-year-old female nursing home resident who fell twice in one month. Improper Safety Protocols GWC’s client was deemed as a high fall [...]

GWC Injury Lawyers LLC has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County on behalf of the estate of a nursing home resident who succumbed to COVID-19 following an ongoing [...]

The family of a deceased nursing home coronavirus victim has filed a lawsuit against the Geneva facility where she lived, which has had one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 in Illinois. [...]

A nursing home abuse lawsuit has been filed after a video of two aides taunting a 91-year-old dementia patient surfaced on Snapchat. Video of Dementia Patient Posted on Snapchat The video at the [...]

Health officials have issued a warning about a drug-resistant, potentially deadly fungus infection that has sickened at least 158 Illinois residents, many of whom are patients at nursing homes [...]

Health officials have found two new clusters of Legionnaires’ disease in Illinois, the first linked to a Walmart in Johnsburg and the second affecting residents at a nursing home in Chicago’s [...]

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has announced that her office will be launching a criminal investigation into whether the Rauner administration improperly handled the Legionnaires’ disease [...]

Nursing home sepsis – a potentially life-threatening bloodstream infection that is a frequent complication of bedsores and a common sign of abuse – is prevalent in Illinois, according to a recent [...]

Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a bill that would have raised the caps on negligence awards paid out by the state through the Court of Claims system. The legislation – which would have raised the [...]

The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported a new case of Legionnaires’ disease in the state. This recent case joins two more infections identified in the past month at the Illinois [...]