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September 14, 2022

Why Are There So Many Lawyers? 

Why are there so many personal injury lawyers? Simply put: Because there are so many insurance companies that don’t do the right thing.   There are countless ways someone else’s carelessness can leave you injured. The system is supposed to…

October 31, 2017

Attorney J. Taylor Bell has Joined The Jeffcoat Firm

The Jeffcoat Firm is very pleased to announce that attorney J. Taylor Bell has joined the firm. He will practice primarily out of the firm’s Lexington office, pending the forthcoming opening of the new Columbia office. Taylor will concentrate his…

March 22, 2016

Nursing Home Neglect – a National Epidemic

Laurie Kash witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of elder neglect. Her mother suffered catastrophic spinal injury at the hands of nurses in a Rochester nursing home who were charged with her care. A once independent 86-year old woman was left…

January 11, 2016

Nursing Home Workers Glorify Resident Abuse Online

  A string of events across the country is illustrating that as technology and social interaction changes, so does the nature of nursing home abuse and elder abuse. According to a Washington Post report, the news organization ProPublica has identified…

November 13, 2015

Federal Rule Proposal Could Ease Way for Nursing Home Lawsuits

The extremely common practice whereby nursing homes require new residents to sign arbitration agreements upon admission is under direct threat by a proposed change to federal rules pertaining to such residential facilities. If approved, the new safeguards would alter the…

July 14, 2015

Study on Damaging Effects of Antibiotic Overuse in Nursing Homes

An estimated 1.4 million Americans reside in more than 15,000 nursing homes today. Many of these seniors require post-acute treatment for suspected urinary tract infections and other ailments common to this aging demographic. But researchers warn that nursing home residents are…

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