Wrongful Death

• Gun Maker To Pay $600000 In Wrongful Death Suit

  Chrissie Cole | July 28, 2011 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  Kahr Arms has agreed to pay nearly 600,000 dollars to the families of one man killed and another injured in a shooting that involved a gun that was allegedly stolen from the company, according...

• Widow Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Big Dig Contractors

  Chrissie Cole | May 14, 2011 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  The widow of a Salem, Mass. man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against eight companies involved in construction of Big Dig tunnel. Brian Hicks was killed in March, after he was flung into...

• MGH Sued By Family After Lethal Drug Error

  Chrissie Cole | March 19, 2011 10:02 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is being sued by the family of a woman who died after being given the wrong dose of a blood thinner. While in the care of MGH, after suffering a shoulder...

• Parents Can't Sue Son's Employer For Wrongful Death

  Chrissie Cole | November 14, 2008 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  The parents of a store clerk stabbed to death by a shoplifter cannot sue the store for wrongful death, the state’s high court ruled. The parents sued Massachusetts CVS Pharmacy, the owner...

• Woman Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Cheerleading Gym

  Chrissie Cole | October 21, 2008 6:25 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  A Massachusetts woman whose daughter was killed in a cheerleading accident is hopeful that her loss will lead to tougher safety standards across the state. Three years ago Ashley Burns suffered a...

• Public Employees and Accountability

  Bruce Bierhans | August 23, 2008 10:16 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Our office recently took on the representation of a Harwich High School student that sustained serious injuries during an unchaperoned event that took place on high school property. A claim has been...

• Nursing Homes and Caregivers

  Bruce Bierhans | January 06, 2008 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A client comes into the office and says, "my 85 year old mother just died in the nursing home after falling out of her wheelchair 7 times."We hear this horrible story, and others like it, all the time. Residents die from infected bedsores. Residents that are clearly patients "at risk for falls" never have fall risk assesments and die after repeated falls. After falls, broken bones are neglected....

• Jury Awards Parents $1.5M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Fraternity

  Chrissie Cole | December 05, 2007 3:17 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  The parents of a Plattsburgh State freshman who died on March 12, 2003 after 12 days of continuous hazing, has been awarded $1.5 in a wrongful death lawsuit against one of the fraternity members.The New York Supreme Court has ordered him to pay the family $1 million in punitive damages, $400,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 for wrongful death.He'd been deprived of sleep for days,...

• Turnpike wants Documents Sealed in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | March 25, 2007 3:20 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, citing concern for the public's safety, has asked a state judge to seal documents in the wrongful death suit filed by the family of a Jamaica Plain woman that was killed in July when the Interstate 90 connector tunnel ceiling collapsed.Lawyers for the Turnpike Authority argue the Homeland Security Act allows the agency to withhold certain formation that...

• Wife Ordered to Pay $3.75 Million over Husband's Death

  Christina Cole | February 04, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A woman that killed her cheating husband by running him down with her car in a jealous rage was ordered to pay $3.75 million to her in-laws on Friday.A jury awarded the sum in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Clara Harris.Harris repeatedly ran over her orthodontist husband with her car in 2002 in the parking lot of a hotel after finding him there with his receptionist/mistress. Harris was...