Alabama’s Human Resources Department has dispatched investigators to interview 88-year-old Harper Lee, as well as her friends and caretakers, after receiving at least one complaint.
The North Dakota Supreme Court has dismissed an ethics complaint against a lawyer who helped an elderly man revoke a power of attorney so he could leave a nursing home.
A nursing home in New York has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $750,000 that claimed a former Brooklyn judge was confined there against his will for eight months prior…
A former nurse’s aide at a nursing home in upstate New York has pleaded guilty to violation of health laws after he was accused of posting a genitals photo of…
Responding to a push by the ABA and elder rights advocates for a greater commitment from the federal government to address the growing problem of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation,…
Nursing homes in New York are seeking guardianships of their patients to ensure bill payment, even when a family member has been designated to perform that function.
A Georgia-based debt-collection company, its owner and six employees have been criminally charged in what is described by federal authorities as a $4.1 million national scheme that took advantage of…
A New Jersey attorney known for her elder law expertise has pleaded guilty to money laundering.concerning a scheme that allegedly stripped senior clients and some of their estates of millions…
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is backing legislation that would allow families to place recording devices in nursing homes to monitor treatment of their loved ones.
The children of a patient in a nursing home in Sugar Land, Texas, have sued the facility, alleging that they can’t visit their mother there because they have been banned…
Due to his deteriorating mental faculties, a prominent Pennsylvania lawyer won’t face either a criminal trial or a civil trial concerning some $6 million he is accused of stealing from…
A federal judge last month denied a request by Inside Edition for a list of the financial victims of Jordan Belfort, the stockbroker whose crimes were depicted in The Wolf…
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