Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

Lipitor has been in the news for a long time. In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration released updates on health complications from Lipitor, including risk of high blood sugar and development of diabetes. A study released the same year found the post-menopausal women taking Lipitor were at a 48% higher risk of developing diabetes…

A recent New York Times article describes how, despite the promised luxurious amenities, many nursing facilities have a poor quality of care. There is a massive shift going on in the nursing home industry to appeal to short-term Medicare patients and turning away from catering to lower-paying Medicaid patients. However, in the rush to appeal…

In the early morning hours of March 26, 2015, Cincinnati lost a hero. Firefighter and family man Daryl Gordon lost his life in the line of duty when he fell into an elevator shaft of a burning apartment building. Having served almost 30 years and just months from his retirement, Fire Apparatus Operator and Explosive…

There are few things more important than enriching, educating and protecting your community – and Crandall & Pera Law’s very own Steve Crandall proved it just last week, when he gave a presentation to 650 members of the student body at Chagrin Falls High School. As part of the campaign to end distracted driving for…

For the last seven years, U.S. News & World Report has published an annual “Best Nursing Homes” edition. The report helps families to search for information about care, safety, staffing and more for almost 16,000 nursing homes throughout the nation. This year’s edition has good news for Ohio. Ohio was ranked second in the nation…

A recent investigation by the New York Attorney General discovered that herbal supplements being sold by Target, GNC, Walmart and Walgreens were contaminated with substances not listed on their labels, and that some brands did not contain any of the product listed on the label. The findings have led to a series of class action…

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently published a study that reports a substantial number of people have been infected by a potentially deadly bacteria who hadn’t been in a hospital. Those infected had instead recently visited a doctor or dentist’s office. The bacteria in question, C. difficile, is a type of healthcare-associated infection…

In 2011, a jury in West Virginia awarded the family of a woman named Dorothy Douglas $91.5 million after Ms. Douglas died from neglect in a nursing home. It was a landmark case, and had that judgment been allowed to stand (it was reduced to $36.5 million later on) it might have sent a powerful…

Nursing homes across the country received lower scores from the government’s five star rating system. A survey published in USA Today assessed more than 15,000 facilities with information collected from over 1.5 million consumers. The slip isn’t because of a decline in quality of care, however, but because of tougher standards implemented by the government.…

Heavy equipment was being used to separate the concrete deck on the Hopple Street overpass, a stretch of I-75 just north of downtown Cincinnati, when a late-night collapse left a construction worker dead and a big-rig driver injured. The span of bridge was being removed by Kokosing Construction as part of a three-year project to…