Year: 2016

The federal agency that controls more than $1 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid funding has moved to prevent nursing homes from forcing claims of elder abuse, sexual harassment and even wrongful death into the private system of justice known as arbitration. An agency...

In what is believed to be a record-setting verdict in Pueblo Colorado, a jury awarded more than $5.5 million for the wrongful death and suffering of Sophia Alcon, a resident at Life Care Center of Pueblo. “It was an honor to represent this entire family on behalf of...

A jury awarded Sophia Alcon’s family $5.5 million, possibly a record in Pueblo district courts, on May 13 after the woman died from complications related to what plaintiff attorneys characterized as “repeated instances of abuse and neglect.” “I think people need to...

The family awarded $5.5 million dollars by a jury in a wrongful death lawsuit last week is speaking out. We first told you about this in our News5 Investigation on Monday. The suit was filed against Life Care Center of Pueblo surrounding the death of 77-year-old...

The family of a 77-year-old resident who died while living at a Colorado nursing home received $5.5 million in damages on Friday, in what was believed to be a record-setting verdict. The family of Sophia Alcon claimed she suffered “repeated instances of abuse and...