It is no surprise that post-pandemic we will have a Covid-19 explosion of litigation in the U.S. One of the targets will be nursing homes (next week, we will explore another likely target, the cruise ship industry). While we haven’t written the playbook for nursing homes yet (we are), there are two articles below which give insight into the patterns you can see developing.
ProPublica analyzes the federal inspection reports of nine nursing homes that jeopardized the health of its residents.
In the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Stein calls attention to the nursing home industry’s underlying structural problems.