Program Details
2026-09-10 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-09-10 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ESTThis session gives plaintiff litigators a practical framework for proving elder neglect and wrongful death claims against chronically understaffed nursing facilities without relying on federal staffing standards. Attorneys learn how to use the federal requirements that survived Public Law 119-21 and state-law theories to establish duty, breach, and causation. Rather than relying on a single regulatory benchmark, attendees will learn how to build an understaffing case from intake to verdict by connecting staffing decisions to specific resident harm.
Michael Brusca
Elizabeth M. Kim
Suzanne Voas 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTThis session gives plaintiff attorneys the tactical and doctrinal tools to defeat nursing home arbitration agreements and maximize damages in senior-care neglect cases after the federal staffing-rule repeal. Attorneys learn the leading attacks on pre-dispute arbitration clauses, including unconscionability, lack-of-authority challenges, and FAA preemption defenses, drawn from recent appellate decisions such as Harrod v. Country Oaks Partners (Cal. 2024) and Hwang v. Pathway LaGrange (Ill. App. 2024). It also covers enhanced damages under state elder-abuse statutes, corporate discovery aimed at staffing budgets, and how to frame litigation as the main accountability tool now that federal minimum staffing standards are gone.
Michael BruscaElizabeth M. KimSuzanne VoasMichael Brusca is a partner at Davis & Brusca, LLC in Princeton, New Jersey. Since 2009, he has concentrated his practice on abuse, neglect, and death cases arising in nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, assisted living facilities, group homes, and hospitals, and he is among a small group of New Jersey lawyers who focus their work on this field.
Elizabeth M. Kim is an attorney at Lanzone Morgan, LLP, where she represents victims of elder abuse and neglect in litigation against skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and their corporate owners. Her practice focuses on uncovering systemic neglect, chronic understaffing, fraudulent charting, and corporate misconduct in long-term care facilities.
Suzanne is an attorney at Lanzone Morgan, LLP, where she represents plaintiffs in elder abuse and neglect, negligence, and wrongful death actions against nursing homes throughout California. She has challenged pre-dispute arbitration agreements at both the trial court and appellate levels. Suzanne argued before the California Court of Appeal, Second District, regarding a health care agent’s authority to bind a principal to arbitration with a nursing home, securing the ruling in Logan v. Country Oaks Partners, LLC (2022) 82 Cal.App.5th 365. After the California Supreme Court granted review, she was part of the team that secured the landmark decision in Harrod v. Country Oaks Partners, LLC (2024) 15 Cal.5th 939. She is an active member of the American Association for Justice Nursing Home Litigation Group and the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
Michael Brusca is a partner at Davis & Brusca, LLC in Princeton, New Jersey. Since 2009, he has concentrated his practice on abuse, neglect, and death cases arising in nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, assisted living facilities, group homes, and hospitals, and he is among a small group of New Jersey lawyers who focus their work on this field.
Elizabeth M. Kim is an attorney at Lanzone Morgan, LLP, where she represents victims of elder abuse and neglect in litigation against skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and their corporate owners. Her practice focuses on uncovering systemic neglect, chronic understaffing, fraudulent charting, and corporate misconduct in long-term care facilities.
Suzanne is an attorney at Lanzone Morgan, LLP, where she represents plaintiffs in elder abuse and neglect, negligence, and wrongful death actions against nursing homes throughout California. She has challenged pre-dispute arbitration agreements at both the trial court and appellate levels. Suzanne argued before the California Court of Appeal, Second District, regarding a health care agent’s authority to bind a principal to arbitration with a nursing home, securing the ruling in Logan v. Country Oaks Partners, LLC (2022) 82 Cal.App.5th 365. After the California Supreme Court granted review, she was part of the team that secured the landmark decision in Harrod v. Country Oaks Partners, LLC (2024) 15 Cal.5th 939. She is an active member of the American Association for Justice Nursing Home Litigation Group and the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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