HOUSTON - Yesterday, the 14th Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a medical-malpractice claim against the Crescent Continuing Care Center Company for failing to timely serve an expert report.
Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?
HOUSTON - A Harris County jury awarded a verdict in the amount of $7,110,000 on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 17 to a local nursing assistant who was injured in 2016 while transferring a bariatric patient from bed to wheelchair at the Courtyards of Pasadena nursing home facility in Pasadena, a press release states.
HOUSTON — A nursing technician who injured her back while assisting a patient alleges Kindred Hospital Houston failed to give her proper training or support.
HOUSTON — The estate of a patient who suffered a fall and broken hip at a nursing facility in Humble is alleging a lack of proper staffing led to negligent care.
HOUSTON — A woman alleges the staff of a nursing and rehab facility allowed her mother to become dehydrated, malnourished and that they strapped her to a wheelchair and left in her in a corner hallway.
HOUSTON — A former Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center patient claims the hospital allowed her to develop a pressure injury which later became infected, while in the hospital for heart surgery.
HOUSTON — A Houston nursing home is being accused of leaving a patient in a urine soaked bed and failing to properly monitor blood sugar levels which ultimately led to the patient's death.
Attorney General Ken Paxton gave this statement after the Biden Administration rescinded the 1115 Medicaid waiver extension previously granted by the Trump Administration.
AUSTIN – The Senate Business & Commerce Committee held a hearing on the Pandemic Liability Protection Act today, during which the bill’s author, Sen. Kelly Hancock, assured all who were present that “bad actors” won’t be protected from litigation.
