Nursing homes are quick to blame strict government regulations, greed amongst trial lawyers suing for nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect, in addition to high liability insurance costs for putting nursing home providers out of business. Now nursing home providers are asking legislature to help them out. It does not seem fair to the residents, families, and advocates who have been witnessing and hearing reports of death and other serious injuries and illnesses resulting from nursing home abuse and see this action as a scapegoat for finally having to compensate victims of nursing home abuse.

In addition, nursing homes cannot refute the statistics that have found that elderly are abused at one in three nursing homes, not taking into account the vast underreporting. Many states, counties, cities, communities are finding that the reported number of nursing home abuse is still continuing to rise, except now some nursing homes are asking that a lid be put on jury awards in order to limit the financial losses experienced instead of looking at how to better improve nursing home care in order to reduce horrific instances of nursing home abuse. Nursing home abuse has continued to make headlines as a solution to the nationwide problem of nursing home abuse is trying to be tackled.

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