Author: Robert Parker

Filing a Claim With Farmers Insurance After an Illinois Car Accident If the other driver carries Farmers Insurance — or you carry Farmers yourself — the claims phone number is 1-800-435-7764. You can also report a claim through the Farmers mobile app or online at farmers.com. Farmers is the seventh-largest …

Nursing Home Care Plans in Illinois: What They Should Include and What It Means When They Don’t Exist When your parent or loved one enters a nursing home, the facility is supposed to create a document that guides everything — how often they’re turned in bed, what medications they take, …

Nursing Home Insurance and Judgment-Proofing: What Families Should Know Before Filing Suit You win your nursing home lawsuit. The jury awards $400,000 in damages. You call to collect. And you learn the nursing home’s insurance policy is capped at $250,000. The facility itself owns no real assets. The building is …

Why Your IDPH Complaint May Be the Most Important Step in Your Nursing Home Case When a loved one is injured or neglected in a nursing home, most families think about hiring a lawyer. That’s the logical next step, right? But here’s what we tell clients in our office: before …

The “Inevitable Decline” Defense: How Nursing Homes Blame the Patient A woman in her seventies enters a nursing home with advanced Parkinson’s disease. She’s been living with it for years. She’s weak but stable. Six months later, she’s admitted to the hospital with severe dehydration, malnutrition, and a pressure ulcer. …