What if a mechanism put on the side of your loved one’s sick bed, presumably to protect them, ends up seriously injuring or killing them? Unfortunately, this is what happened to 63-year old Alzheimer patient, Billie Trew due to nursing home neglect. She was strangled to death by the restraints…
Police officer Richard Carrillo was injured in a Fresno area car accident after a driver turned in front of his motorcycle. According to a news report in The Fresno Bee, the injury motorcycle accident occurred at Pioneer Avenue and Lowery Street in Porterville the afternoon of December 5, 2010. Carrillo was…
What do you expect when you put a loved one in a nursing home? Do you expect loving, respectful care or do you expect that your loved one will suffer from elder neglect in the forms of malnutrition, dehydration, pressure sores from being left in bed, or worse? According to…
Eight people were injured, two critically, in a Los Angeles car accident after a Metro Blue Line train collided with a minivan that was stalled in the train tracks. According to an ABC news report, the minivan versus train accident occurred at the intersection of East 41st Street and Long…
Rudy was born and raised on a farm in South Dakota. For over 80 years, Rudy lived and worked on that farm. He got married and raised three children there. His children eventually grew up and moved away. After 63 years of marriage, Rudy’s wife Lucille passed away. Rudy lived…
Four people, including a baby, were injured in a Los Angeles car accident, which officials say, involved six vehicles and one hit-and-run driver. According to a news report in The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the injury car accident occurred the afternoon of December 5, 2010 on the eastbound 10 Freeway…
Do you ever read all the fine print in the long consumer contracts you receive? If so, you’ve probably noticed a “mandatory arbitration” clause buried deep inside the contract. Most consumer contracts now have them — even contacts for nursing homes. By entering in a nursing facility, seniors or their…
A pedestrian accident in Santa Ana resulted in critical injuries for a man who was struck by a van the night of November 28, 2010. The Orange County Register reports that the pedestrian was crossing the street near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Hazard Avenue when he was hit…
Gabriel Barragan Abundio, 86, was killed in a hit-and-run car accident in Duarte after he was struck while crossing a residential street. According to a report in The Pasadena Star-News, the elderly man was walking across the 18000 block of Buena Vista Road near Duarte Road the evening of December…
If you put your beloved parent, grandparent, aunt, or uncle into a nursing home, how would you feel if you found out that the nurses and doctors at the home tied them up to a bed or wheel chair? How outraged would you be if you knew that the people…