Nursing home owners sue over Katrina
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Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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The owners of a nursing home where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina will likely go on trial in St. Francisville, 120 miles northwest of where the victims died.
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In November, a judge gave hope to homeowners trying to collect insurance money for flood damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Now, that decision is under scrutiny.
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Baystate Medical Center, which had sued nearly 300 patients in 15 months for not paying their medical bills and was under state review for its aggressive collection methods, has stopped suing patients and placing liens on their homes except for the largest unpaid bills, executives said.
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One day after Donald Seither&#39;s mobile home was ripped up by Hurricane Charley, the 74-year-old retiree picked up a friend&#39;s phone and pleaded for federal aid.
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Homeowners unfortunate enough to get slammed by multiple hurricanes in the past seven weeks have had to face the risk of another less deadly but more expensive disaster.
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A mentally ill paraplegic man filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a hospital that dumped him in a gutter on Los Angeles' "Skid Row" -- a case that highlighted the plight of the city's vast homeless population.
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A jury began  deliberating on Friday the fate of a couple accused of  negligent homicide in the flooding deaths of 35 elderly people  at their Louisiana nursing home during Hurricane Katrina.
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Sunrise Senior Living's former chief financial officer, Bradley B. Rush, yesterday sued the McLean assisted-living company, claiming that it fired him in May in retaliation for his uncovering improper accounting practices.
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To Louisiana's attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the medical community are outraged at the arrests, saying the three caregivers are heroes who faced unimaginable horrors as Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and trapped them and their patients.
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By MICHELLE ROBERTS  NEW ORLEANS - Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials they failed to evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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By Erica Beshears, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 15--Eleven Huntersville residents who live near a recently approved Harris Teeter shopping center on Beatties Ford Road have filed suit against the town.
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CHALMETTE, La., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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The case against a doctor and two nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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Crews from far and near work to restore electricity to places like nursing homes.
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Residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims the agency ignored warnings about defects in a nearby navigation channel, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Victims of some of the worst flooding after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans sued the federal government on Thursday charging negligence in the construction and maintenance of floodwalls on the 17th Street Canal.