Health Care & Hospital Law
Sep. 3, 2011
Elder abuse legislation stalls
Legislation authored by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, that would have lowered the burden of proof in physical elder abuse cases has stalled.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
At a legislative hearing this summer, a San Francisco elder abuse plaintiffs' attorney laid out the grim details: an elderly woman brought into the emergency room from a nursing home with severe bedsores and blood levels that resembled that of a gunshot victim.
But under a discrepancy in California elder law, attorney Kathryn A. Stebner has a higher burden of proof in her civil case against the h...
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