Nursing home to pay $6.75M to settle case of 86-year-old sexually assaulted
08 May 2018
Media Mention
PennLive Wilkes and McHugh attorneys Lorraine Donnelly, Matt Stone and Carl Wilander represented the family of a woman who was sexually assaulted in a nursing home in...
Garden Spot Village to pay $6.75M to family of woman who was sexually assaulted at Akron nursing home
04 May 2018
Media Mention
LNP Lancaster Online Wilkes and McHugh attorneys Lorraine Donnelly, Matt Stone and Carl Wilander represented the family of a woman who was sexually assaulted in...
$7.5 million verdict awarded in Pennsylvania nursing home assault case
04 May 2018
Press Release
On May 4, 2018, a Lancaster County jury awarded $7.5 million for compensatory damages to the family of an 86-year-old nursing home resident who was...
How a small company above a N.J. pizza parlor put Kansas nursing home residents at risk
15 Apr 2018
Media Mention
Kansas City Star In yet another investigation on Skyline Healthcare, the Kansas City Star examines how the nursing home company was able to take over operations of...
Questions about Willow Terrace owner after nursing home collapse in Nebraska and Kansas
12 Apr 2018
Media Mention
The Philadelphia Inquirer Skyline Healthcare, a nursing home chain created by Joseph Schwartz, has taken over at least 100 nursing homes across seven states since 2015 — a...
W&M takes 2nd place in 5K two years running
03 Mar 2018
Nonprofit News
Wilkes & McHugh was proud to be a Big Kahuna sponsor for the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s 15th Annual 5K Pro Bono River Run and Judicial...
Addiction, Inc.
15 Feb 2018
News of Interest
The New York Times In a 4-part series, The New York Times provides insight on how the “haphazardly regulated, poorly understood” industry of addiction treatment generates billions...
12 nursing home deaths in Hollywood ruled as homicides
22 Nov 2017
News of Interest
The Sun Sentinel Authorities ruled 12 of the 14 deaths at a Florida nursing home after Hurricane Irma as homicides. The Broward County medical examiner’s office...
Program helps veterans with free legal guidance
13 Oct 2017
Nonprofit News
Fox 13 W&M attorney Joe Ficarrotta volunteers for the Veterans Legal Assistance Registry and was able to help veteran James Broner overcome a mountain of...
Jury awards $28 million in Paducah, Kentucky, nursing home lawsuit
28 Sep 2017
Press Release
On Thursday, September 28, 2017, a McCracken County, Kentucky, Circuit Court jury determined that a nursing home company and its employees neglected a resident and...