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Thousands of Massachusetts Drivers Have Been Involved In Multiple Motor Vehicle Accidents

Posted on February 14, 2008
Approximately 87,000 Massachusetts drivers have been in at least two motor vehicle accidents from 2002 through June 2007. 8,400 of these drivers have been in three crashes. Some 1,100 were in four auto collisions. Some 220 people have been in at least five accidents...

Jury Awards Brain Damaged-Massachusetts Woman Hit by MBTA Bus $10 Million Personal Injury Verdict

Posted on February 12, 2008
A jury in Massachusetts has awarded Louise Scialdone, a 58-year-old Somerville resident, $10 million in her personal injury lawsuit against the Massachusetts Transportation Bay Authority (MBTA). The total sum, interest included, is nearly $12.8 million...

$67 Million John Ritter Wrongful Death Lawsuit Goes to Court

Posted on February 08, 2008
This week, attorneys involved in John Ritter wrongful death lawsuit began jury selection. The case finally goes to court more than four years following the September 2003 death of the beloved actor. The late actor?s wife, actress Amy Yasbeck, and his children are suing two cardiologist Joseph Lee and radiologist Matthew Lotysch, who both treated the actor...

8-Year Old Massachusetts Girl in Medically Induced Coma After Being Struck by Elderly Voter in Car

Posted on February 07, 2008
8-Year-old Brittany Noel suffered internal injuries and a fractured skull after being struck by an SUV in the schoolyard at E.G. Lyons Elementary School in Randolph, Massachusetts on Tuesday. She was placed in a medically induced coma at Boston Medical Center last night...

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90-Year-Old Boston Woman Dies in Pedestrian Accident While Crossing Massachusetts Avenue

Posted on February 05, 2008
Bert Hirschberg, a 90-year-old Boston grandmother and women?s rights activist, died while crossing Massachusetts Avenue when she was struck by a car. Hirshberg used a walker to get around. She was crossing the avenue, located close to her apartment, when she was hit by a Toyota...

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Death of Boy Who Drowned In Pool Drain Suction Accident

Posted on January 31, 2008
The parents of Zachary Cohn, a six-year-old boy who died last July after his arm got stuck in an underwater suction drain in the deep end of their swimming pool, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, Shoreline Pools, as well as several other defendants...

Boston, Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit Is Filed After 86-Year-Old Dorchester Woman Sustains Fatal Head Injury In Operating Room Table Fall

Posted on January 30, 2008
The family of Catherine O?Donnell, the 86-year-old woman who died after falling from an operating room table at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the doctor, two nurses, an orthopedic resident, and an anesthesiology resident?all who were in the operating room at the time...

Multi-Vehicle Car Collision in Eastern Massachusetts Kills One Person During Monday Morning Commute

Posted on January 28, 2008
A brawl between two truck drivers, one fatality, two multi-car collisions, a car fire, and series of fender benders slowed morning traffic for commuters on different freeways in Eastern Massachusetts. Massachusetts State Police say that two tractor-trailer drivers were reportedly involved in a physical altercation on the side of the road on Route 295 S at the 1B exit in North Attleboro...

Two Massachusetts Students Get $18.9 Million Personal Injury Settlement For Burn Accident Caused By Chemistry Experiment

Posted on January 25, 2008
Calais Weber and Cecilia Chen, both 17, are now college students studying in Massachusetts. Calais is a Wellesley College undergraduate, while Chen studies at Harvard. The two students are also burn injury survivors of a chemistry experiment gone bad when they were high school students at Western Reserve Academy, a private boarding school in Ohio...

CPSC Recalls Toy Magnetic Construction Sets to Protect Children from Personal Injury

Posted on January 24, 2008
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Battat Inc. are recalling 125,000 Battat Magnabild Magnetic Building Systems due to concerns that if young children swallow more than one of the magnets, they may experience intestinal blockages or perforations or even die...

Boston, Massachusetts Shells Out $9 Million to Fix Its Most Dangerous Intersection

Posted on January 22, 2008
Dubbed Boston?s ?most dangerous intersection,? the corner of Walk Hill Street and American Legion Highway has been the scene of 97 motor vehicle accidents in four years. Residents in the area think that this calculation is on the low end and they call the busy intersection ?Kamikaze Way...

Man Files Personal Injury Lawsuit Claiming that Eating Microwave Popcorn Injured His Lungs

Posted on January 17, 2008
Kenneth McClain, a Denver, Colorado resident, has filed a personal injury lawsuit because he says that the artificial butter flavoring on microwave popcorn gave him bronchiolitis obliterans, also called ?popcorn lung.? He filed his lawsuit against Kroger Company, Inter-American Products Inc...

Norfolk County Man is Third Fatality Linked to Tainted Milk From Whittier Farms Dairy in Massachusetts

Posted on January 14, 2008
An 87-year-old man from Norfolk County is the third elderly person to die in connection with drinking contaminated milk. Health officials are citing Whittier Farms, a dairy located in Massachusetts, as the source of the tainted milk. The other two people who died were also elderly men, ages 78 and 75...

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Sues Massachusetts and Norfolk County for Slip and Fall Accident

Posted on January 11, 2008
In Massachusetts, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Paul Chernoff is suing the state of Massachusetts and Norfolk County for the injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell on the steps of the Norfolk County Courthouse in Lowell in 2004. The commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Norfolk County Commission, and the Division of Capital Asset Management were named as the parties held liable for not making sure that the building was maintained properly...

13-Year-Old Massachusetts Bicyclist Dies After Being Struck by Driver Who Was Text Messaging

Posted on January 08, 2008
In Massachusetts last month, at about 12:30am on, 13-year-old Earman Machado was riding his bicycle next to a friend, who was walking on the shoulder of the road that runs parallel to Route 24, when he was plowed down by a car. The driver of the motor vehicle did not stop at the accident scene...

58 Fire Fatalities in Massachusetts in 2007

Posted on January 04, 2008
Out of the 58 people that died in Massachusetts due to fires in 2007, 11 of these fatalities took place in Boston and 11 of the year?s fatalities occurred in December. The death toll from fire accidents could rise if any of those who survived accidental fires but sustained serious burn injuries end up dying...

Medtronic to Pay $114.1 Million to Settle Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator Lawsuits

Posted on January 02, 2008
Medtronic Inc. will settle 2682 lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who claim that the implantable biomedical device maker knew that its Marquis line of implanted cardiac defibrillators was defective but didn't do enough to pull the devices off the market or let patients know there were safer alternatives...

Toby Keith?s Family Wins $2.8 Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on December 28, 2007
A jury awarded country music star Toby Keith and his family $2.8 million in the wrongful death of his father, H.K. Covel, who was killed in a motor vehicle crash in 2001. Keith, his mother Carolyn Covel, his sister Tonni, and his brother Tracey were the other plaintiffs named in the lawsuit...

Worcester Jury Awards Massachusetts Teen $2.85 For Escalator Accident that Mangled His Hand

Posted on December 27, 2007
Massachusetts middle school student Kevin Lou, 13, was awarded $2.85 million in Worcester Superior Court for the escalator accident that mangled his right hand nine years ago. Kevin and his family filed the personal injury lawsuit against Otis Elevator Co, the U...

Truck Safety Coalition Lawsuit Wants to Limit Truckers' Work Hours

Posted on December 23, 2007
A coalition of truck safety advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a ruling that allows truck drivers to drive one more hour before taking a break. A new rule, introduced by the Bush Administration in 2003 had increase the number of hours that a commercial trucker can drive during a 14-hour period?from 10 hours to 11 hours?before taking a break...

Massachusetts Group Home Fires Staff Members for Administering Electrical Shocks to Teenagers

Posted on December 21, 2007
In Massachusetts, the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center fired seven staff members for administering dozens of electrical shocks to two emotionally disturbed teenagers because a caller pretending to be a supervisor told them to do so. Six of the fired staff members worked the graveyard shift at the center?s Stoughton group home...

Massachusetts Jury Awards Family $6.1 Million Wrongful Death Verdict In Gillette Stadium Metal Gate Lawsuit

Posted on December 20, 2007
The family of Cape Cod, Massachusetts resident Thomas Kelly was awarded $6.1 in the Suffolk County wrongful death lawsuit against Foxboro Realty Associates, Standard Parking, and Apollo Security. A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded the $4.4 million judgment on Tuesday...

Massachusetts Family of Big Dig Victim May Agree to Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $6 Million

Posted on December 19, 2007
The Massachusetts family of a 38-year-old Jamaica Plane woman who died when the Big Dig Tunnel ceiling collapsed last year may be close to reaching a settlement agreement with Powers Fasteners, the company that provided the ceiling bolt epoxy that is believed to be responsible for the collapse...

Nine People Injured In Massachusetts When Two Green Line Trains Collide

Posted on December 14, 2007
Nine people were hurt in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday after one Green line train rear-ended another trolley on Thursday. All nine people were transported to the hospital for medical care. Two of the victims were taken away in stretchers. The train accident took place at a Boston platform at the Boylston Street station where one train came in and rear-ended another train parked there...

Massachusetts Woman Wins $2.5 Medical Malpractice Verdict for HIV Misdiagnosis

Posted on December 13, 2007
A jury in Massachusetts awarded Fitchburg resident Audrey Serrano $2.5 million in her medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Kwan Lai, the doctor who misdiagnosed her with HIV. Serrano was treated for HIV for nearly nine years before she found out that she never had the virus...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules that Doctor Can Be Liable if Patient Causes Motor Vehicle Accidents

Posted on December 13, 2007
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling earlier this week that says a doctor can be sued for personal injury if his patient caused a deadly car accident. The case before the SJC involved a mother who wants to sue a doctor because he allegedly did not warn his patient that taking his medication could cause him to become a dangerous driver...

Diabetes Drug Avandia May Cause Bone Fractures

Posted on December 05, 2007
New research shows that the popular diabetes drug Avandia may cause bone thinning, which could lead to osteoporosis and bone fractures. Although GlaxoSmith-Kline has admitted that women who take Avandia have a higher risk of bone fractures, this most recent study is the first one to explain the connection between bone fractures and the drug...

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