Jason E. Hammond | Chicago Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Lawyer

03/28/2022

12/04/2018

At the same time, a federal judge said he will appoint a monitor to oversee the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. “The stakes cannot be higher,” the judge said.

08/04/2017

The Trump administration wants a rule to make clear that nursing homes can make residents give up the right to sue as the price of admission.

07/26/2017

State restrictions, the increasing cost of filing and a long campaign by businesses has discouraged plaintiffs. ‘People are just not filing cases like they used to,’ says one D.C. trial judge.

06/08/2017

Consumer advocates blast move: "It’s hard to imagine a more callous policy."

06/05/2017

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday ditched its Fifth Circuit appeal of a decision blocking the agency's ban on mandatory nursing home arbitration, the latest signal that the ban’s…

12/27/2016

It’s the most wide-ranging revision of nursing home rules in 25 years.

11/10/2016

In a bit of hypocritical irony, Nursing Homes have filed a lawsuit (which they are preventing the individuals and families who are abused and neglected in their facilities from doing) and have been granted a preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of Medicare's new rule requiring nursing homes receiving Medicare to remove mandatory (forced) arbitration clauses from their contracts.

In September, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new rule that would prevent most nursing homes and other long-term care facilities from using forced arbitratio…

09/09/2016

On Tuesday, Gov. Rauner signed Molly's Law that will strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Act and extend Illinois’ statute of limitations.

08/25/2016

A police officer accused of being under the influence of alcohol when he crashed his squad car told another officer that "those glasses of eggnog must have been bigger than I thought," according to a prosecutor at the start of the man's trial Wednesday. Oscar Baez, who resigned from the Prairie...

08/23/2016

Read more to learn how many corporations use forced arbitration clauses to tip the scales of justice heavily in their favor and strip you of the right to your day in court: http://fineprint.justice.org/

What’s Buried in the Fine Print?

07/31/2016

A few years ago, we wrote about a New York Times story based entirely on “previously undisclosed depositions – some marked ‘confidential’- from decades-old lawsuits against gun manufacturers for contributing to gun violence.” In the late 1990s, “More than 30...