Massachusetts Personal Injury Updates

You would think the summer was already here. Every day, The Log in the Cape Cod Times lists three or four serious local car accidents involving everything from drunk drivers and cars crashing into...

You know the economy is lousy when your personal injury clients begin to call and say "My God...isn't my case ready to settle yet?" This is a lament we are hearing lately with greater frequency,...

The medical malpractice suit filed by the family of an Orange County girl revived after doctors allegedly declared her dead in 200 is slated to begin on Monday. The girl was 20 months old when she...

In the summer of 2001, I tried a landmark case in Worcester, Massachusetts. I represented the family of a young man with hemophilia that died from receiving clotting concentrate infected with the...

A Rehoboth woman, 19, was killed this morning in a car accident when her vehicle crashed with a tractor trailer in Middleboro. The passenger, 20, of Plymouth, sustained serious injuries...

This past week, I attended an Injury Board conference. I enjoyed meeting member lawyers from other parts of the country. One of the persitent laments during the week was the increasing difficulty in...

Michaels Stores Inc. in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a voluntary recall of 310,000 seasonal writing pens due to high levels of lead on the surface...

What's worse than losing your home? Not much. Unfortunately, we are seeing many people in our office confronting this nightmare scenario. You've all seen the statistics. Foreclosures at record...

Combi USA is voluntarily recalling over 67,000 infant car seats because the seat can separate from the base resulting in injury, in the event of a crash. Should the seat separate, the child would not be adequately protected.The car seat recall includes the entire line of infant seats from October 2005 to December 2007, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

On Friday, March 28, a tanker exploded and shut down Interstate 91 in Chicopee. The driver of the tanker became badly burned after being trapped inside the truck during and after the explosion. Over a dozen drivers stopped their vehicles to try and free the man from the wreckage but were stopped by the flames.The driver was finally rescued and taken to a local hospital. The driver suffered...