Pleasant Law Blog 
Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
- Increasing Demands for Nursing Home Aids and Other Staff: a Frightening Prospect
- Nursing Homes Sometimes Use Unnecessary and Harmful Tactics to Save Time Due to Understaffing
- Nursing Home Transparency Act: Some Hope For Nursing Home Injury/Death Victims and Their Attorneys
- Nursing Homes and Private Equity Investors
- Dehydrated Nursing Home Patients: Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Lawyers Can Provide Guidelines
- Harmful Care Rampant in Nursing Homes According to Official
- When the Nursing Home Claims Pressure Sores are Inevitable or Unavoidable
- Pressure Ulcers in Adults: Prediction and Prevention (Nursing Home Clinical Practice Guidelines)
- Injuries From Nursing Home Falls Can Be Difficult Cases
- Medicare 2008 Action Plan for Nursing Home Improvement Released
Medical Negligence, Mistakes and Malpractice
- Informed Consent in Medical Malpractice Cases May Not Be What You Think
- Doctor Alleged to Have Ignored Patient Drug Allergy, Leading to Hospital Death
- Birth Injury: Erb's Palsy / Brachial Plexus From Medical Malpractice
- Medical Malpractice: More Heparin drug mistakes and overdoses at hospital
- Some doctors take a reasonable position regarding patients' right to sue
- Jury awards $19.6M to injured baby and mother for injuries during delivery
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: whether the result of delivery room medical error, car wrecks, or another type of accident, these injuries require a unique approach
- Surgery Mistakes and Informed Consent: Doctors/Surgeons Must Inform Their Patients of Risks of Surgery; and Adhere to the Standard of Care
- Hurt by a Hospital-Acquired Infection: You May Have Medical Negligence Case Against the Hospital or Nursing Home
- Getting Medical Records Before Filing a Medical Negligence Complaint Against The Doctor or Hospital: Let's Apply Common Sense
Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
- Auto Accident Insurance (Underinsured Motorist Coverage)
- Life Care Plans for Future Care in Personal Injury Cases Add Up
- $1.9 Million Settlement to Man Killed by Drunk Driver
- Threat of Personal Injury from Dog Bites in Fayetteville North Carolina
Insurance: Unfair Insurance Claim Practices
- Allstate, Unum, AIG, State Farm, Conseco, Wellpoint, Farmers, United Health, Torchmark, and Liberty Mutual Top Ten Worst Insurance Companies List
- Unfairly Delayed Insurance Claim Payments Can Result in Large Insurance Damages Award
- Insurance Unfair Claims Legal Victory Versus Fireman's Fund Insurance
- Insurance Companies Act in Bad Faith When They Set Goals for Cancellations or Pay Bonuses Based on Cutting Claims
- Insurance Law: Allstate Would Rather Pay $25,000 PER DAY than Release McKinsey Documents
- Insurance Law: $8.5M Verdict Against State Farm Upheld
- On Insurance Claim Fairness
- Incredible Allstate Insurance
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News
- Pending: Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2008 more
- $6 Million Awarded To Family of Patient Killed by Morphine Overdose more
- Thomas Pleasant Settles Homeowner Insurance Claim Case. Insurer Pays About Double What It Claimed Was Due For House Repairs more
- Insurers playing rough more
- State Farm appeals award more
- Lawyers Guiding Clients Through The Strike Zone more
- Employment Discrimination Suit to Test Strength of Arbitration Clause more
- Health Insurer Tied Bonuses to Dropping Sick Policyholders more
- Insurance Industry Stung by $11 Million R-67 Loss more
- Sugeon Wins $31 Million in UnumProvident Suit more
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Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
- Medicare "Bad Nursing Homes" List
- 2008 Nursing Home Improvement Plan from Medicare
- Paper: New Opportunities to Imrpove Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment
- 12 Tips for Nursing Home Abuse, Neglect and Wrongful Death (A Free E-Book By Attorney Thomas Pleasant)
Medical Negligence, Mistakes and Malpractice
- Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer: Guidelines from the American Cancer Society
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network Breast Screening Guidelines: Helpful Document For Those Considering Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer Lawsuits
- Case Point Memo: Statutes of Limitations in Medical Negligence Cases
- NC Medical Malpractice Summary: No Lawsuit Crisis Indicated
Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
- Auto Insurers Play Hardball in Minor Crash Claims (CNN, Feb. 9, 2007 Article Re: Personal Injury Auto Accident Claims)
- Thomas Pleasant's Winning Brief to the NC Court of Appeals in Personal Injury Case of Frank v. Funkhouser
- Thomas Pleasant's Winning Brief to the NC Court of Appeals in Johnson v. Brewington Personal Injury Case
- Johnson v. Brewington Personal Injury Attorney Fee Award - NC Court of Appeals Opinion (also see Thomas Pleasant's winning brief below)
- NC Court of Appeals Opinion in Frank v. Funkhouser Personal Injury Case (also see Thomas Pleasant's winning brief below)
Insurance: Unfair Insurance Claim Practices
- United Policyholders Information on UnumProvident's Disability Insurance Practices and Unfair Insurance Claims Practices / Bad Faith Lawsuits
- Homeowner Claims: Increase Your Payout
- Dateline Story: The Paper Chase (Regarding Allegedly Unfair Insurance Claims Practices in Disability Insurance Claims)
- UnumProvident "Representation" Letter
- Disability Claim Denied! (Business Week Article on Disability Insurer's Unfair Insurance Claims Practices / Bad Faith)
General
- Disability Insurance Market Conduct Investigation Report: Unum Provident and Paul Revere (Unfair Insurance Claims Practices / Bad Faith)
- State Farm v. Campbell (Excerpt): Why a Judge Found State Farm Cheated Customers For Over Two Decades (Unfair Insurance Claims Practices / Bad Faith)
- Fighting for the "Little Guy" - Brief and Resulting Order Denying Contempt Charge Against Thomas Pleasant's Franchisee Client
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners
- Consumer Federation's Allstate Insurance Anti-Consumer Study
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Insurance: Unfair Insurance Claim Practices
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