All of us have been taught the importance of being personally responsible and accountable for our actions. This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Bills that will make it more difficult, if not impossible, for citizens harmed by the wrongdoing of others to seek justice in our…
Our firm has been suing nursing homes since the 1990s. In fact, Suthers & Harper was one of the first firms in the United States to obtain a successful jury verdict against a nursing home for neglecting and abusing a resident. When we first started accepting these cases in the…
A lawsuit brought by a number of homeowners who purchased new homes in Pooler, Georgia and Savannah, Georgia, alleges that bad concrete used in the construction of their homes has caused problems. The concrete was poured and utilized in the foundations, slabs, footings, garages, driveways and patios, which are cracking…
On December 1st, jurors in Dallas Texas returned a verdict against Depuy Orthopedics for more than a billion dollars. There were more than 40 witnesses that testified during the 10 week trial. The jury deliberated for nearly eight hours before returning the verdict that awarded $32 million in actual damages…
A North Carolina company recently agreed to pay $3.75 million to a South Carolina couple who were rear-ended by a company truck while the truck driver was talking on his cell phone. The company, Unify, Inc., is a yarn manufacturer that has 60 trucks traveling across U.S. highways. At the…
Life Care Centers of America (“LCCA”), and its owner Forrest Preston, have agreed to pay $145 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that LCCA violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing their nursing homes to submit false claims for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary.…
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), similar to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), issued a Hazard Alert on September 27, 2016 for Stryker LFIT Anatomic CoCr V40 femoral heads. The LFIT V40 is a femoral head that orthopedic surgeons utilized in hip replacement surgeries. The Stryker LFIT…
Recently, we reported on the new rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that bars nursing homes from requiring residents to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of their admission to the nursing home. These forced arbitration agreements prevented nursing home residents and their family members…
Lawsuits brought by so-called “whistleblowers” are also referred to as qui tam lawsuits. The phrase “qui tam” is an abbreviation of a Latin phrase meaning “he who sues in this matter for the king as well as for himself.” In a qui tam lawsuit, an individual, known as the relator,…
As we have written on this blog numerous time over the years, many nursing homes and other long-term care facilities use forced arbitration contracts to prevent their residents from bringing a legal action against the facilities in a court of law, and are instead forced into expensive, secretive arbitration proceedings. …