California court strikes down nursing home law
A California judge has ruled a law that allows nursing homes to make treatment decisions for mentally incompetent residents is...
Fraud Target: Senior Citizens
Our Common Fraud Schemes webpage provides tips on how you can protect you and your family from fraud. Senior Citizens especially should...
Recent Case Alert -- Paul v. Patton
Filed April 9, 2015, Sixth District Cite as H040646 Decedent retained attorney to draft an amendment to a revocable trust. The decedent...
SB 33: Medi-Cal Recovery
Co-sponsored by CANHR and Western Center on Law and Poverty, SB 33: Limits recovery for those 55+ to what is required by federal law –...
IRS Completes the "Dirty Dozen" Tax Scams for 2015
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service wrapped up the 2015 "Dirty Dozen" list of tax scams today with a warning to taxpayers about...
Supreme Court should not cripple health care
As attorney general of California, I have vigorously defended the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. This landmark law has...
If Supreme Court rules against Obamacare, states have few options
With Supreme Court arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act just days away, a sense of impending crisis has hit state...
AB 601 (Eggman) Introduced to Strengthen Disclosure and Suitability of RCFE Ownership
CANHR is also sponsoring an important bill on ownership disclosure and suitability of ownership for Residential Care Facilities for the...
AB 927 (McCarty) The Nursing Home Ownership Disclosure Act of 2015 Introduced
On February 26, 2015, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty of Sacramento introduced AB 927, a CANHR sponsored bill that directly responds to the...
Op-ed: A human right to death with dignity
It is long overdue for state legislatures and state courts across the country to recognize, by statute and under state constitutions, a...
