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Careful, Kentucky: The Shot You Get May Be the Death of You

As of October 31, 2012, a rare fungal infection has killed 28 people and made 377 sick with meningitis, according to the Centers for Disease...

If no criminal case has been filed against the nursing home staff, can my mother still file a lawsuit to recover for the abuse she sustained in a Louisville nursing home?

Yes. Your mother, or you, should contact a Louisville nursing home abuse lawyer to discuss your rights and possible case regardless of whether the state brings a...

Louisville Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers Help Protect Patients with Dementia

It can be scary to leave a parent, or any loved one, with dementia in a Kentucky nursing home. You parent’s mind may not be...

Liability for Injury Caused by Louisville Nursing Home Resident

If you have a loved one in a Kentucky nursing home, abuse is probably something that you have thought about. You researched the nursing home,...

Too Many People Die From Preventable Medical Errors, Kentucky

Too many Americans are dying each year from medical errors, and something has to be done about it.  According to a national investigation conducted by...

My father recently died during heart surgery. He researched and found a surgeon that was rated highly by colleagues and patients. Now I find that although this doctor was involved in the surgery, a less experienced doctor did the actual procedure. Do I have a case for medical malpractice?

You certainly do! What you describe is commonly called “ghost surgery,” an increasingly common practice of substituting one surgeon for another without a patient’s knowledge...