Mr. M was a resident at Fallow Court Home, an adult foster care group in Romulus, Michigan. While a resident at this facility, Mr. M required sufficient direct care staff on duty at all times for his supervision, care, and…

When 88 year-old Ms. W’s dementia worsened and she needed assistance with activities of daily living, her family decided to place her at Grand Court, an unlicensed and unregulated senior living facility in Farmington Hills, Michigan, owned and operated by…

Jules Olsman will represent the family of Christel Moryl, an 89 year-old resident of Waterford at Edison Lakes senior living facility in Mishawaka, Indiana.  Ms. Moryl wandered, undetected, out of her apartment building and drowned in a pond on the…

Olsman, Mueller, Wallace & MacKenzie has filed suit on behalf of an elderly resident of Magnum Health and Rehab of Albion, Michigan, who died as a result of a severe head injury with internal bleeding that went untreated. Early in…

On September 12, 2010, Ms. G, a resident of the Shiawassee County Medical Care Facility in Corunna, Michigan, was attending church services in the dining room with no caregiver to supervise her. She got up from her wheelchair and tried…

Olsman, Mueller, Wallace & MacKenzie have filed suit on behalf of Ms. F against Riverwind Senior Assisted Living of Williamston, Michigan. On May 26, 2012, Ms. F was being pushed in her wheelchair by a caregiver.  The caregiver should have…

In two cases our law firm is handling, we have discovered what I would describe as willful and deliberate failure on the part of nursing homes to report deaths of residents that occurred as a result of gross negligence on…

Many times, state and federal regulators levy substantial and, more often, minimal ($100) fines against facilities when serious injury and deaths occur. The question is how meaningful these fines are and whether they help change how the facility operates. The Miami Herald ( 12-31-11)…

We are currently in litigation in a case against Caretel in Livingston County, a skilled care facility, that failed to report a serious medication error occurring when a resident was given her roommate’s medication. The roommate was diabetic. Our client’s loved…

We are investigating the death of a 91 year old who choked to death in the side rails of her bed in an adult foster care facility. Nursing homes rarely, if ever utilize side rails following the rash of choking deaths…