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Love though California juries. Government sets up arbitrary "standards”, no matter if they are valuable, proper or even needed. Then, they force the private sector to live, and spend, by State rules.
If you don't, you lose. In the case of a Nursing home, you lose $640 million dollars--and your business.
"A Humboldt County jury called on an Orange County-based nursing home firm yesterday to pay $640 million in a class action lawsuit that alleged understaffing, likely handing down the largest such financial blow of its kind in the state.
Michael Thamer, a Callahan, Calif. attorney, said in an interview that the statutory damages are meant to refund care for each patient on each day the Skilled Healthcare Groups 22 California nursing homes failed to meet state staffing minimums. A 2000 state law determined that nursing homes must provide 3 hours and 12 minutes of direct care per day to each patient.
The trial began in January and continued for six and a half months. It will continue as a judge decides whether to grant an injunction to trial attorneys and Humboldt County's district attorney, who are seeking a demand that the firm stop operating with fewer staff than mandated by the state."
Government is out of control--this is why living in California is so expensive---Arizona, though hot, is really looking good.
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If you don't, you lose. In the case of a Nursing home, you lose $640 million dollars--and your business.
"A Humboldt County jury called on an Orange County-based nursing home firm yesterday to pay $640 million in a class action lawsuit that alleged understaffing, likely handing down the largest such financial blow of its kind in the state.
Michael Thamer, a Callahan, Calif. attorney, said in an interview that the statutory damages are meant to refund care for each patient on each day the Skilled Healthcare Groups 22 California nursing homes failed to meet state staffing minimums. A 2000 state law determined that nursing homes must provide 3 hours and 12 minutes of direct care per day to each patient.
The trial began in January and continued for six and a half months. It will continue as a judge decides whether to grant an injunction to trial attorneys and Humboldt County's district attorney, who are seeking a demand that the firm stop operating with fewer staff than mandated by the state."
Government is out of control--this is why living in California is so expensive---Arizona, though hot, is really looking good.
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