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Construction Worker Injured During Massachusetts Slip and Fall Accident Through Roof

Posted on July 16, 2010
A construction worker hurt his back and fractured his ribs on Monday during what is being described as a Shrewsbury slip and fall accident through the roof of an AutoZone that is under construction. The victim is employed by M&M Drywall of Georgia, a subcontractor for this job...

Chicopee Parents Sue Springfield Hospital for Massachusetts Personal Injury Stemming from Deceased Baby?s Organ Removal

Posted on July 13, 2010
The parents of 7-month-old Kaylee Marie Drolet are suing Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and four doctors for Massachusetts medical malpractice. Matthew Drolet and Samantha Martino claim the defendants conducted an autopsy on Kaylee and took out her organs without their consent...

New Bedford Dog Attack Involving Three Pit Bulls Leaves UMass Dartmouth Student with Serious Facial Injuries

Posted on July 10, 2010
Police are investigating a New Bedford dog attack on Friday that left a 22-year-old UMass Dartmouth student with serious injuries. WPRI reports that the man was walking close to Country and Robeson Streets in the evening when three pit bulls came out of a residence and mauled him...

Driver Accused of Causing Fatal Newton Car Accident Had Just Been Released from Jail an Hour Before

Posted on July 06, 2010
According to police, 21-year-old Evan Hoffman had just been released from jail on bail an hour before his Jeep Cherokee crossed the double yellow lines on Beacon Street to crash head-on into a minivan shortly after 6am on June 26. The Newton car accident claimed the life of the van?s driver, Chelsea resident Jose Puzul-Peres...

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Three Teens Injured in Canton Group Home During Brawl

Posted on June 30, 2010
Three teenage residents in a Canton Group home had to be taken to the hospital on Friday after they were injured during a group brawl. About six staff members were also involved in the altercation. The home is run by the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, which is known for using electrical skin shock to discipline students...

US Supreme Court Allows Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against the Vatican to Proceed

Posted on June 29, 2010
By refusing to hear an appeal from the Vatican, the US Supreme Court has allowed a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Holy See to move forward. The clergy sexual abuse complaint accuses the Vatican of working with US church officials to transfer a priest to different cities in the wake of allegations that he was abusing a number of young people...

ER Doctors Say They May Overtest and Overtreat Patients Because of Fear of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Posted on June 25, 2010
According to emergency room doctors, the fear of ER medical malpractice is what prompts some of them to overtest and overtreat patients. As a result, CT scans, blood tests, and prescription drugs may be ordered even though a patient actually doesn?t need them...

Preventing Massachusetts Car Accidents: Statewide Texting While Driving Ban to Be Implemented

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Massachusetts Senate and House have come up with a compromise proposal to combat distracted driving. Included in this agreement is a statewide ban on texting while driving, as well as a ban on cell phone use for drivers under the age of 18. Adults, however, will still be allowed to use handheld cellular phones while driving...

David Woodman?s Family Reaches $3 Massachusetts Wrongful Death Settlement with Boston Police

Posted on June 19, 2010
Nearly two years after David Woodman?s death, his family have reached a $3 million Massachusetts wrongful death settlement with Boston police. Woodman, a 22-year-old Celtics fan, stopped breathing after police apprehended him for drinking in public during the 2008 NBA championship festivities on June 18, 2008...

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day a Reminder that So Many Boston Assisted Living Facility Patients Are Vulnerable to Massachusetts Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Posted on June 16, 2010
Elder abuse is not just a problem in US nursing homes, it is a crime that is happening in private homes and in other assisted living facilities around the globe. Today, June 15, 2010, is the Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Throughout the world, people are using the day to increase awareness about elder abuse and neglect...

Massachusetts Products Liability?: Lowell Toddler Nearly Strangled by Window Blinds that are Part of Latest Ikea Recall

Posted on June 12, 2010
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Ikea are recalling 3.4 million shades and window blinds. The recall, which involves Roman shades, roll-up blinds, and roller blinds that were sold at IKEA stores in the US between January 1998 and June 2009, comes following news that an 18-month Lowell, Massachusetts boy nearly died from strangulation...

Boston Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors Are More Likely to Suffer from Clinical Depression

Posted on June 10, 2010
According to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in the year after sustaining a traumatic brain injury, about half of TBI survivors experienced an eight times greater risk of suffering from serious depression accompanied by greater mobility problems, more pain, and a harder time accomplishing their usual tasks...

Family of East Boston Man Shot by Cop During Standoff Sues City of Lynn for Massachusetts Wrongful Death

Posted on June 04, 2010
The family of Michael Addesa has filed a Lynn wrongful death lawsuit against the city. The 34-year-old was shot to death by Lynn Police Officer Paul Holey on the evening of May 27, 2008. According to the Lynn Police Department, Holey saw the East Boston man behaving strangely at the intersection of Commercial and Alley streets...

Family of 100-Year-Old Woman Files Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Dartmouth Nursing Home and Roommate Charged with Her Murder

Posted on June 01, 2010
Eight months after 100-year-old Elizabeth Barrow was allegedly strangled to death by her 98-year-old roommate at a Dartmouth assisted living facility, her family has filed a Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit. The 54-count civil complaint accuses Brandon Woods of Dartmouth, its executive director Scott Picone, and a number of staffers of Massachusetts nursing home negligence...

Hit-and-Run Driver in Lawrence Car Accident that Injured Toddler Was Scrolling Through Cell Phone

Posted on May 28, 2010
Elia Adames, the Methuen motorist who failed to stop after her vehicle struck 2-year-old Jordan Pena on Tuesday, says she was scrolling through her cell phone when the Lawrence, Massachusetts pedestrian accident happened. The collision tossed the toddler, who ran into the street while playing in the driveway, some 15-20 feet into a fire hydrant...

Preventing Boston, Massachusetts Injuries to Children: Lawmakers and CPSC Move to Ban Drop-Side Cribs

Posted on May 26, 2010
On Monday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill that would outlaw the manufacturer and sale of drop-side cribs. Meantime, US Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Inez Tenenbaum is pledging to ban the sale and manufacturer of drop-side cribs by the end of 2000...

$4.3 Million Massachusetts Personal Injury Verdict Awarded to Man Injured When Snowplows Pushed Snow Onto His Truck

Posted on May 20, 2010
A Plymouth County jury awarded Mark Lambert $4.3 million for Massachusetts personal injuries he sustained when snowplows pushed a heavy load of snow off a highway overpass on January 17, 2005. The snow, which an expert witness compared to a 3-b-8 foot block of concrete, struck Lambert?s Mack truck on Route 44, crushing his vehicle...

Preventing Boston Truck Accidents: City Gets 45-Day Extension Before Ban Barring Commercial Trucks from Transporting Hazardous Materials in the Daytime is Lifted

Posted on May 19, 2010
One day after federal officials lifted the city of Boston?s ban on trucks transporting hazardous materials, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admission has given the city a 45-day extension on the ban. However, city officials don't believe this is enough time to finish a safety analysis to justify the need for why the ban should stay in effect...

Massachusetts Fall Accidents in Cambridge and Brookline Claim Two Lives

Posted on May 14, 2010
Massachusetts fall accidents from elevated heights can lead to broken bones, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and even death. This is why it is so important that property owners, premise supervisors, and other responsible parties make sure that there are no hazardous conditions or situations that can lead to catastrophic falls...

Massachusetts Pedestrian Named Lord Jesus Christ Injured in Northampton Car Accident

Posted on May 11, 2010
A 50-year-old Belchertown man named Lord Jesus Christ was injured in a Northampton pedestrian accident on May 4. Christ was treated at a local hospital for his injuries, which included a bruised hip, soreness, facial swelling, and broken teeth, before being released...

Cell Phone Use is Making Nighttime Driving Even More Deadly for Teen Motorists

Posted on May 08, 2010
According to a Texas Transportation Institute report, from 1999 to 2008 there has been a 10% increase in the proportion of deadly nighttime traffic crashes involving US teen drivers. This increase can be largely attributed to cell phone use and text messaging that, combined with the risks already posed by driving in the dark, can create ?a perfect storm,? says Senior Research Specialist Bernie Fette...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills One Tenant and Injures Three Others at Sudbury Home

Posted on May 07, 2010
A diesel generator emitting high doses of carbon monoxide has claimed one life while sending three others to the hospital. The accident happened at the victims? Sudbury home that they were renting. According police, one of the victims woke up early Friday to discover that she couldn?t breathe...

Death of Massachusetts Toddler from Crib Entrapment Leads to Latest Simplicity Crib Recall

Posted on May 01, 2010
Two years after a 1-year-old North Attleboro baby died from suffocation while entrapped between the frame and mattress of his crib, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling the Simplicity full-size cribs (both drop-side and fixed-side cribs) that come with mattress support frames that are made with tubular metal...

Death of Mashpee man who was inappropriately restrained at Cape Cod Hospital is under investigation

Posted on April 29, 2010
An inquest will take place in the death of Daniel Ryan. The Mashpee man died three weeks after he was restrained at Cape Cod Hospital on October 9, 2009. The 35-year-old was there to visit his wife, who was a patient. The hospital claims that they had to restrain him because he was a danger to patients, staffers, and himself...

Quincy Nursing Home Abuse?: Massachusetts Nurse?s Aide Charged With Raping Female Resident

Posted on April 23, 2010
Hilda Almonor, a nurse?s aide, is accused of raping a 68-year-old nursing home resident. The 46-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to one count of indecent assault and battery and two counts of rape. According to prosecutors, the alleged Massachusetts nursing home abuses occurred on April 3 and April 10 while Almonor was helping the patient shower at the Hancock Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Quincy...

Toyota Motor Corp Recalls Lexus GX 460 to Remedy SUV Rollover Hazard

Posted on April 22, 2010
Toyota is recalling the 2010 Lexus GX 460 sport-utility to fix the software in the sport utility vehicle?s stability control system. Testing by Consumer Reports and Toyota found the vehicle to be an SUV rollover risk, and the automaker has taken immediate action to fix the problem...

Boston Sexual Assault: Former High School Basketball Coach Faces Criminal Charges for 1976 Rape

Posted on April 19, 2010
Bob Oliva, a former high school boy?s basketball coach has pleaded not guilty to two counts of child rape and one count of disseminating pornography to a minor. Oliva, 65, is charged with raping sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy, who was a family friend, at the Boston Sheraton in 1976...

$1.8 Million Massachusetts Wrongful Death Settlement Reached Between For-Profit Methadone Clinic and Mother of 8-Year-Old Girl Killed in Marlboro Truck Crash

Posted on April 15, 2010
Kayla Lackey?s mother Erin has reached a $1.8 million Massachusetts wrongful death agreement with Community Health Care Inc., a for-profit methadone clinic in Chicopee. Kayla was just 8 when she died in a Marlboro truck accident in April 2005 on Route 9...

Suffolk County Jury Awards $2.4 Million Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict in Wrongful Death of College Basketball Player

Posted on April 13, 2010
A Massachusetts jury has awarded the parents of Antwoine Key $2.4 million for his Worcester wrongful death. The college basketball player died in 2005 after collapsing during the first quarter of a game at Worcester State College. Dr. Dorina R. Abdulah had examined the 22-year-old Eastern Connecticut State University student in 2001...

Father Files Salem Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Teen Daughter?s Death in Lynn, Massachusetts Car Accident

Posted on April 09, 2010
The dad of 19-year-old Julia Gauthier is suing her boyfriend and his mom for Massachusetts wrongful death. Gauthier died in a Lynn car accident on March 21 when the Toyota 4Runner SUV that her boyfriend, 19-year-old Christopher Maxson, was driving flipped over...

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