Victims of nursing home abuse and neglect have won the right to have their cases heard by a jury. In a landmarkchange in regulationsby the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services nursing homes can no longer require residents to submit claims to private arbitration. The change was prompted by high-profile cases in which residents and their families were barred from seeking relief in the courts from horrendous instances of physical abuse. In one of the cases, a 100-year-old nursing home resident was strangled to death by a roommate, and in another, a 94-year-old resident died of a head wound at a Pennsylvania facility. |
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