Last November, a case on behalf of Phyllis Wehlage, a resident of Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare, was filed against Evergreen California Healthcare and associated entities, including EmpRes Healthcare. Ms. Wehlage, who stayed at Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare in 2008, allegedly suffered "indignities and other harms" due to inadequate nurse staffing levels. The case initially was filed in Sonoma County Superior Court and earlier this year the case was moved to the federal court's jurisdiction. In June federal court Judge Claudia Wilken ruled against EmpRes' and Evergreen's motion to have Wehlage's suit dismissed, clearing the way for the suit to become class action. Earlier this month, following additional filings in the case, attorneys for EmpRes Healthcare filed a notice of mediation, which is supposed to commence in the case on Oct. 24.
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Public Justice Foundation has announced the winners for their 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. W. Timothy Needham, Michael J. Crowley, Patrik Griego and Amelia F. Burroughs of Janssen Malloy LLP have all been awarded the 2011 Attorney of the Year Award for their work in Lavender v. Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc.
News Release - 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.pdf
Public Justice Foundation has announced the winners for their 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. W. Timothy Needham, Michael J. Crowley, Patrik Griego and Amelia F. Burroughs of Janssen Malloy LLP have all been awarded the 2011 Attorney of the Year Award for their work in Lavender v. Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc.
News Release - 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.pdf
Public Justice Foundation has announced the finalists for their 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. W. Timothy Needham, Michael J. Crowley, Patrik Griego and Amelia F. Burroughs of The Janssen Law Firm have all been selected as finalists for their work in Lavender v. Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc.
California Lawyer magazine announces W. Timothy Needham and Michael J. Crowley as two of the winners of the 2010 Clay Award in Elder Law.
If understaffing of nursing homes wasn’t on the radar as an issue before July 6, 2010, it certainly has been since then.
That’s the day a Humboldt County, California, jury returned a $677 million verdict against one of the nation’s largest nursing home chains, Skilled Healthcare, for violations of California’s Health and Safety Code at 22 of its facilities in the state.
Plaintiffs' counsel -- Janssen, Malloy, Needham, Morrison, Reinholtsen, Crowley & Griego, LLP, the Law Offices of Michael D. Thamer, and Christopher J. Healey and Aaron Winn from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP -- are pleased with the results of the negotiated settlement, which requires court approval.
Skilled Healthcare Group, one of the largest nursing home chains in the country, has been ordered to pay $677 million for failing to keep its California nursing homes staffed adequately.
A Humboldt County jury orders Skilled Healthcare Group to pay damages for understaffing at its 22 assisted-living facilities in California.
Outlook for company grim after Humboldt County jury renders verdict.
Skilled Healthcare down 75 percent on $671 million verdict.
Skilled Healthcare Falls Most Since 2007 After $671 Million Jury Verdict
Horror stories and deep legal troubles at Humboldt County's for-profit nursing homes
Officials with Sun Valley Floral Farms have agreed to pay as much as $1.4 million to compensate hundreds of employees for overtime wages, after a class action lawsuit was brought against the flower distribution company in late 2007.
California Lawyer magazine announces Patrik Griego as the winner of the 2009 Clay Award in Employment Law.
Michael Crowley of the Janssen Law Firm represents mother in wrongful death action against the man who killed her son, then 14-year- old Curtis Huntzinger, 18 years ago.
After mere moments of deliberation, Humboldt County Superior Court Judge John T. Feeney awarded a $3.6 million wrongful death judgment to Nancy Huntzinger more than 19 years after the death of her son, Curtis Huntzinger.
A jury found against a handyman who sustained severe, third-degree burns in a workplace accident.
Patrik Griego of the Eureka firm of Janssen, Malloy, Needham, Morrison, Reinholtsen, Crowley & Griego, LLP has been selected as CAOC’s Street Fighter of the Year.