Kimberly Marselas
Senior Editor at McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Healthcare journalist. Proud Terp. Fan of food, fitness and my fam of five (sometimes in that order). Accepting your book and podcast recs.
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2 weeks ago |
mcknights.com | Kimberly Marselas |Kimberly Bonvissuto
The average payment for senior care liability claims doubled in the decade ending in 2024, with skilled nursing and other higher-acuity settings facing the highest increases. Liberty Mutual highlighted courtroom tactics as one reason for the steep rise in its recent 2025 senior care claims study. “Factors contributing to the increase in average indemnity payments include legal system abuse and plaintiffs’ counsel use of reptile theory courtroom tactics to inflame the jury,” the report noted.
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1 month ago |
mcknights.com | Kimberly Marselas
The US Supreme Court this week declined to consider a New Jersey nursing home company’s appeal for relief after a lower court upheld a $400,000 National Labor Relations Board fine. Alaris Health had asked the High Court to review the board’s ruling against its now-closed Boulevard East location, which doubled hourly pay and then withdrew those increases early in the pandemic.
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1 month ago |
mcknights.com | Kimberly Marselas
A federal judge has denied an attempt by PACS Group to move two legal complaints against the nursing home giant to Utah. US District Judge Lewis Liman said PACS, seven executives and underwriters named as co-defendants must face the allegations brought by an individual investor and a pension fund in New York, where they were filed last November.
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1 month ago |
mcknights.com | Kimberly Marselas
Several of LTC Properties’ key performance indicators were down to start the year, but the firm’s executive team took an upbeat, forward-looking stance Tuesday — even brushing aside concerns that one of its largest tenants may be experiencing financial challenges. On Monday, the real estate investment trust reported that its net income was down nearly $4 million from a year ago, with earnings per share dropping from $0.56 to $0.45 since the first quarter of 2024.
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1 month ago |
mcknights.com | Kimberly Marselas
Sabra Health Care increased its first-quarter rent intake by $1 million over 2024, despite having disposed of $15 million in real estate from its triple-net portfolio in the last year. That was one of several slow but sure signs of continued improvement reported by the real estate investment trust and its leaders during an earnings call Tuesday.
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