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The Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) hosted a CLE course with elder law attorneys Jeanne Ramasso (second from left) and John Dalli (second from right) of Dalli & Marino, LLP. Also pictured is BBA’s CLE Director Danielle Levine (left) and Hon.…

Four nurses at Woodmere Rehabilitation and Health Care Center charged for a "shocking level of neglect and mistreatment," the AG said. Four nurses at a Five Towns health and rehabilitation center were charged Wednesday with falsifying medical records that led…

Dog Bites Can Be Prevented with Better Education The old saying “dogs are a man’s best friend” might be news to the more than four million people bitten each year, most often children and the elderly. Some of these attacks…

Auto Safety Crisis Spurs Record Year of Recalls A decade-long ignition-switch defect in millions of General Motors vehicles helped launch a record 2014 for automakers for all the wrong reasons. Auto companies issued more recalls involving older models than ever before,…

To Uber or Not to Uber? Ridesharing Faces Controversy With one tap of a smartphone app, Uber is upending the taxi business and changing the way people around the world commute. The meteoric rise of Uber, and other ridesharing services…

Unable to see clearly and afflicted with dementia, Frank Mercado, 77, depended completely on the care provided by the small nursing home in the Bronx where he had lived for four years. But last Monday, as Mr. Mercado cried for…

The Center for Public Integrity has released an analysis showing large-scale discrepancies in the nurse staffing information self-reported by nursing homes on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Nursing Home Compare website. By comparing staffing information contained in cost…

Peter Mazza, 99, died in June, weeks after none of his aides helped him after he broke bones when he suffered a fall at his Oakwood home. The grandfather to 13 wanted to spend the rest of his days at…

STATEN ISLAND (PIX11 ) – It is evidence we very rarely even see: alleged neglect and abuse all caught on home surveillance cameras. 99-year-old Peter Mazza passed away in June. His family says from complications he suffered as a result of…