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1.01 -- Introduction  The most important decision made on a recurrent basis by the personal injury practitioner is the decision to accept a case and invest time, experience and money towards its resolution. The lawyer prone to accept a number of speculative or...

Accelerated Accountability  Why is this trend particularly relevant to the gerontological nurse? Nowhere are the factors that precipitated the emergence of legal responsibility and independent liability for the professional nurse more pronounced than in the discipline...

Dorothy Cooper was a child of the Great Depression, one of eight children who went to work in the West Texas cotton fields after their father lost his railroad job. Her schooling was sporadic, her life difficult. But Ms. Cooper was a survivor. "She viewed her life as...

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS On Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997, plaintiff’s decedent Tranquilino Mendoza, then an 81-year-old dementia sufferer who resided in the general population of Comanche Trail Nursing Center in Big Spring was attacked by his roommate, Geronimo Vela,...

Introduction:  Objective:  To educate those in the nursing profession and the allied health fields about conduct (relating to treatment and care of the geriatric patient) which constitutes a "red flag" to the legal profession; places health care professionals at risk;...

Facts & Allegations On Jan. 11, 2008, while refueling a logging loader in Rusk, plaintiff Alvaro Chavez, 52, a truck driver, used his cigarette lighter to check the fuel gauge and was engulfed in a flash fire. His employer’s fuel  contractor was Gardner Oil Inc....

Facts & Allegations On Feb. 24, 2008, plaintiffs’ decedent  Clay Nelson, a resident of a nursing home in south-central  Tennessee, was found unresponsive during dinner at the nursing home facility. Staff initiated CPR and called 911. When paramedics arrived at the...