Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Spinal Cord Injury

  Ken Margolin | January 22, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  An estimated 250,000-450,000 Americans are living with spinal cord injury . The primary causes are motor vehicle accidents (nearly 50%), falls, violence (especially gunshot wounds) and sports activities. The majority of victims are males under the age of 30 (some studies indicate that the age range has risen in recent years). Spinal cord injuries are either complete or incomplete and their...

• When Can A Designated Driver Be Liable For His Passenger’s Conduct?

  Michael Bogdanow | November 04, 2011 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For millenia, people have asked Am I my brother’s keeper? (Genesis 4:9). Throughout my career, it is one of the most recurring questions I have received. Can I be liable for someone’s...

• A $12Million Verdict and Negligent Entrustment

  Bruce Bierhans | September 09, 2010 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For those of us that have represented plaintiffs' in personal injury cases in Norfolk County, we know before we open our mouths, that the odds are 9-1 against us. Those have been the statistics for...

• The Video Settlement Brochure

  Ken Margolin | June 22, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  In a previous blog, I wrote about day-in-the-life videos. These are videos that film a severely injured plaintiff and capture vignettes of a typical day, in a 20 - 30 minute movie. If done properly, they can be shown to a jury at trial. Another tool that any lawyer representing a client with catastrophic injuries may consider, is a video settlement brochure. In the video settlement brochure, the...

• Catastrophic Injury Cases and the Day in the Life Video

  Ken Margolin | November 08, 2006 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  When attorneys handle a case involving paralysis or other catastrophic injuries, one of the biggest challenges is effectively portraying their impact on the client's life. Words are powerful, but go only so far. One of the most effective tools available to the trial lawyer is the day in the life video. These videos show more dramatically than any verbal description, the difficulties posed by the...

• Liquor Liability for Serving Drinks to Minors

  Ken Margolin | January 11, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts just ruled that commercial establishments that serve drinks to underage persons (under 21 in Massachusetts) have a higher level of liability than when they serve to legal age, intoxicated patrons. The case, decided on January 9, 2007, is Nunez v. Carrabba' Italian Grille, Inc. The plaintiff, a 19 year old, spent a night drinking heavily at Carrabba's...

• Disastrous Distractions

  Ken Margolin | May 07, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Driving while chowing down a donut, alternating the snack with a cup of hot coffee, is a time-honored example of dangerous, distracted driving. Even though driving safety researchers preached that drinking a beverage while driving, could lead to car crashes due to distraction, human nature dictated that eating and drinking while driving, was never going to stop. The ante was raised with the...

• Private Investigators for Real Plaintiffs

  Ken Margolin | February 27, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  You've seen them on television - those private investigators who can solve any crime or get the true story on any disaster while the authorities fiddle around without a clue. If you are old enough to remember "The Rockford Files," then you know how creative television private eyes can be. The work of real-life private investigators is more boring, generally consisting of tenacity, a good...

• Liquor Licensee Liability Laws

  Ken Margolin | January 16, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Most states in the US have some form of laws imposing liability on liquor licensees that serve liquor to clearly intoxicated persons who then go out to cause injury or wrongful death to a third party, usually by causing a car crash. The laws are known as "dram shop" acts. Organizations such as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) have been quite successful in campaigning and lobbying to get...

• A Synopsis of Boston's Big Dig Tragic Tunnel Collapse

  Staff Writer | July 29, 2006 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On July 10, 2006, Melina Del Valle (38) of Boston was killed when a nearly 3000 pound ceiling panel feel from the recently completed I 90/Ted William's Connector Tunnel in Boston's Central Artery. The tragedy follows a decade of concerns over escalating costs related to the tunnel, which included at least one indictment and conviction for false plan submission. Massachusetts Governor, Mitt...