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		<title>$43.5 Million Dollar Verdict Against GA Nursing Home Operator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home operator ordered to pay $43.5 million in wrongful death lawsuit
By Péralte C. Paul, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
September 3, 2010 
A Georgia jury Friday ordered a Sandy Springs lawyer and nursing home operator to pay $43.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.
The payment is to go to the estate of a man whose family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Finally Moving Toward &#8220;Plain English&#8221; Jury Instructions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INDIANA JUDGES ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES PLAIN ENGLISH CIVIL JURY INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE ON LEXISNEXIS  
The Indiana Model Civil Jury Instructions, written in plain English, are now available through LexisNexis.  The new instructions were prepared by the Civil Instructions Committee of the Indiana Judges Association (IJA).  The IJA is a voluntary association of judges and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Attorney General&#8217;s Office &#8211; Abysmal Record of Investigating NH Complaints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 24, 2010
Indiana Nursing Homes Dodge Scrutiny
Attorney general has filed 6 complaints out of 300 cases in past 5 years
By Heather Gillers and Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star
When state health inspectors and police investigated a rape reported at a Marion nursing home in June 2008, what they discovered suggested such an assault could have been prevented.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Errors Cost Nearly 20 Billion Annually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Society of Actuaries Study Finds Medical Errors Annually Cost at Least $19.5 Billion Nationwide
Report shows how 1.5 million medical errors compromise quality of American healthcare and cause unnecessary waste in the system
Aug. 9, 2010
Findings from a new study released today estimate that measurable medical errors cost the U.S. economy $19.5 billion in 2008. Commissioned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Governor Signs Nursing Home Reform Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor Pat Quinn last week signed historic legislation that transforms Illinois’ system of care for frail older adults and persons with disabilities.  The Governor signed two new laws, Senate Bill 326 and Senate Bill 2863, that improve the lives of current and future nursing home residents and are based upon recent research, investigations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Ct. Imposes Corp. Liability On Nursing Homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Court Imposes Corporate Liability Upon Nursing Homes
By: Leo Strupczewski
07-28-2010
A unanimous Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has ruled that a nursing home can be held corporately liable for its actions. 
Writing that such liability is already imposed on hospitals, health maintenance organizations and medical professional corporations, a three-judge panel in Scampone v. Grane Healthcare Co. held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Appeals Court Rules that Parents of Stillborn Child Can Recover NIED Damages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indiana Court of Appeals held today that a mother who suffers a stillbirth due to medical malpractice qualifies as an injured patient and satisfies the actual victim requirement under the Medical Malpractice Act, regardless of whether the malpractice resulted in injuries to the mother, fetus, or both.
In Steven Spangler and Heidi Brown v. Barbara [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sweeneylawfirm.com/blog/indiana-appeals-court-rules-that-parents-of-stillborn-child-can-recover-nied-damages.htm</link>
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		<title>Ind. Court Rules Atty Fees Not Recoverable in Adult Death Cases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney fees not recoverable under adult wrongful death statute
July 20, 2010
The Indiana Court of Appeals today disagreed about an issue of first impression regarding recovery of attorney fees under the adult wrongful death statute. 
In Jeffery H. McCabe, As Representative of the Estate of Jean Francis McCabe, Decedent v. Commissioner, Indiana Department of Insurance as Administrator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subsidizing Bad Behavior: The Injustice of Tort Reform by Ken Connor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subsidizing Bad Behavior: The Injustice of Tort Reform
By Ken Connor
On April 5, 2010, the community of Montcoal, West Virginia was devastated when an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine took the lives of 29 men.  For the families impacted by this disaster, coping with the unexpected loss of loved ones is only the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Has Already Proven That &#8220;Tort Reform&#8221; Does Not Lower Health Care Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ohio&#8217;s tort reform law hasn&#8217;t lowered health-care costs
By Stephen Koff, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
March 20, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; As the House of Representatives prepares to vote Sunday on a package that
Democrats say will make health care more affordable, critics insist the &#8220;big government
takeover of health care&#8221; is not only unwarranted, but that a part of the [...]]]></description>
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