Category: Older Adults
Big Success for Seminar
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, insurance claims, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, seminar, wrongful death This past Saturday, Dixon Law Office along with the Law Offices of Noreen Costelloe, hosted a seminar titled Protecting Your Assets from the High Cost of Aging. Dixon Law Office founder, G. Grant Dixon III, discussed liability insurance and gaveContinue reading
Lions, Tigers and . . . Attacks!
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories animal attacks, Children, dog bite, injury, Older Adults, wrongful death, Young Adults A young boy is at a petting zoo. He is petting an ostrich, supposedly a tame ostrich. As his hand strokes the soft feathers, the bird spins his head and bites the child in the head. The bleeding wound isContinue reading
Crane Collapse
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Construction Injuries, injury, Older Adults, workers compensation, wrongful death, Young Adults Aerial cranes are amazing machines. They are able to lift hundreds-of-thousands-of-pounds high into the air and place them delicately into position. When they work well, it looks like a ballet. When they don’t, death and destruction almost always follow. BecauseContinue reading
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Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Children, Infants, injury, Older Adults, wrongful death, Young Adults Does your lawyer return your calls? Does your lawyer answer your questions? Can you reach him or her when you need to? Have you ever wondered why not? The number one complaint clients have about their lawyers is that theContinue reading
Burning Down The House
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Children, Infants, injury, Older Adults, wrongful death, Young Adults There is perhaps no disaster more catastrophic than a house fire. The damage to your home, furniture, clothing, and stuff is hard to live with. When a loved one is injured or killed, the catastrophe is much worse. Clients areContinue reading
Elopement Injuries
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death When a couple elopes, they run away to get married. In a nursing home, if someone elopes, the resident leaves the facility without the knowledge of staff. In nursing homes, elopement is always a bad thing. Patients with mental diseasesContinue reading
Falls at Work
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Older Adults, slip and fall, workers compensation, wrongful death, Young Adults When you are working, you have the right to expect your workplace is safe. The law requires the ground be safe and free of obstructions. But when it is not, who is at fault if you fall? Most States haveContinue reading
Attacks in a Nursing Home
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories injury, Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death Keeping your loved one safe is a serious and important responsibility of every nursing home. Sadly, the staff often does a poor job of preventing the most serious dangers, attacks by other residents. Attacks by other residents can occur forContinue reading
Defective Chair No Laughing Matter
When you sit your rump down in a chair, you expect it to hold you. But in some cases, the chair breaks like an old Three Stooges skit. While the fall might initially be both funny and embarrassing, the fallContinue reading
Abuse in a Nursing Home
Author Dixon Law OfficePosted on Categories Nursing Home, Nursing Home Abuse, Older Adults, wrongful death You trust a nursing home to keep your loved one safe. Sadly, these attacks happen much more commonly than we want to admit. Early studies showed that residents self-reported abuse between 1% and 10% of the time. This number isContinue reading