Bear Mountain Healthcare, a Connecticut-based nursing home operator, has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle allegations that it chronically understaffed 11 Massachusetts skilled nursing facilities, resulting in neglect, resident harm and false claims submitted to the state’s Medicaid program. “Bear Mountain’s owners were aware that, in certain quarters, some of the facilities they owned and operated did not meet the 3.58 hours per patient day threshold,” the court filing for the settlement states.
—Skilled Nursing News, July 1, 2026
DOL Takes Uncommon Step, Suing Nursing Home Leaders Personally Over Alleged Wage Theft
The Wage and Hour Division said the nursing home and leaders “repeatedly and willfully violated” the Fair Labor Standards Act when it failed to pay employees one-and-a-half times their regular rates for overtime or did not pay employees for all hours worked. They are also accused of failure to keep complete and accurate records. As proof, attorneys said some Superior Manor employees appeared on time records but not on the payroll records and the hours shown on the payroll records did not always match hours shown on time records.
The federal agency filed suit against Superior Manor of Festus in Missouri on Monday, seeking back pay and damages for employees over a three-year period and a $103,000 civil monetary penalty. The lawsuit targets the 2-star, 55-bed nursing home, its owner and another managerial employee.
—McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, June 25, 2026
Wage and Hour Headaches Mount as Overtime, Meal Break Controversy Spur New Nursing Home Lawsuit
Two nurses are suing a Texas-based nursing home chain, alleging the management company failed to properly calculate overtime rates and automatically deducted meal breaks even when staff didn’t get to take them.
The lawsuit against Priority Management Group, proposed as a class action, is the latest in a recent string to target nursing homes and other long-term care facilities over wage and hour issues.
While the Labor Department is pressuring employers to track meals not taken so as not to deduct those hours, an OIG report issued last week calls on CMS to make nursing homes deduct more of those required breaks from the hourly staffing data they submit.
—McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, June 22, 2026
Nursing Home Malpractice Settlement Amounts: 2026 Data, Verdicts & How Compensation Is Calculated
Documented understaffing: CMS staffing data, payroll-based journals, and internal scheduling records that prove dangerously low staff-to-resident ratios are powerful evidence of systemic negligence. The plaintiff success rate in nursing home abuse cases now stands at 88% — nearly three times the success rate for general medical malpractice claims, according to data cited by Health Affairs.
—Medical Malpractice Injury Calculator Blog, June 20, 2026
Former HR Manager Accuses Madison Health and Rehabilitation Center of Fraud
“When they report their payroll-based journal or PBJ data to the government, they are paid based on what they report. So if they say a nurse works eight hours, they are reimbursed by the government for those eight hours,” Peterson said. “Now, if you didn’t pay a nurse those eight hours? They’ve made money. We call it a margin in business, right? And so it’s a massive margin business,” Peterson said.
—LEX 18 News (WLEX), June 4, 2026
Class-Action Suit Over Alleged Understaffing at Alden Group Nursing Homes Moves Forward
Alden Group, an Illinois-based nursing home operator, will face a proposed class-action lawsuit over alleged understaffing at its facilities after a county court ruled the case can proceed.
The lawsuit, led by the AARP Foundation and supported by legal and disability-rights advocates, alleges that Alden facilities were chronically understaffed and sometimes operating at about half the legally required staffing levels. The company allegedly concealed this by reporting “ghost” workers and submitting inaccurate data to regulators, it further states.
—Skilled Nursing News, April 17, 2026
