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Boston Crane Collapse Kills One Massachusetts Construction Worker and Injures Another

Posted on February 08, 2009
In Boston, one worker has died and another suffered serious injuries when a crane fell at Suffolk University on Saturday morning. The crane was being used to inspect the roof of a seven-story dorm building when it tipped over, causing its 110-foot arm to crash into a building and barely miss a number of shoppers who were browsing books at the Brattle Book Shop?s outdoor display...

Massachusetts Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit Pending Against Brockton Nursing Home Assistant Convicted of Assault and Battery of a 93-Year-Old Patient

Posted on February 04, 2009
In Brockton Superior Court, Judge Carroll Ball sentenced former Massachusetts nursing home assistant Steven Laroche to a two-year suspended jail sentence for sexually assaulting an elderly person. Laroche had pleaded guilty to the charges of assault and battery...

Family Of Marine Who Was Refused Care At The VA Hospital In Massachusetts to Receive Wrongful Death Settlement

Posted on February 02, 2009
A $350,000 wrongful death settlement has been reached between the federal government and the family of a US marine reserve corporal who was refused care at the Veterans Administration hospital in Leeds, Massachusetts. Marine Reserve Corporal Jeffrey Lucey hanged himself in June 2004...

Toyota Issues International Recall of 1.3 Million Motor Vehicles

Posted on January 29, 2009
Toyota is recalling 1.3 million motor vehicles over concerns that a foam pad located close to the seat belt could catch fire during an auto crash. Included in the automaker?s recall are 134,000 Yaris subcompacts (2006 and 2007 models) that were sold in the United States...

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Seat Belts and Air Bags Together Are Key to Preventing Spine Fractures During Motor Vehicle Accidents

Posted on January 27, 2009
New information in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine offers convincing evidence that the combined use of seat belts and air bags is the best protection that auto accident victims can have from sustaining spine fractures. The findings are based on an examination of over 20,000 motor vehicle crash victims who were treated in Wisconsin hospitals between 1994 and 2002...

Massachusetts Man Awarded $2 Million for Wrongful Death of Wife Due to Medication Error During Cesarean Delivery

Posted on January 23, 2009
In Salem Superior Court, a jury awarded the family of Priscilla Jardine $2 million for her wrongful death. Jardine died on February 26, 2004 soon after giving birth to a baby girl during an emergency cesarean section. The jury issued its Massachusetts wrongful death verdict after finding that Jardine?s obstetrician, Dr...

Investigators Probe Cause of Massachusetts Bus Accident that Injured 5 People

Posted on January 20, 2009
In Massachusetts, an investigation is taking place into a bus crash that occured last Sunday night in Grafton. Five people were injured and taken to UMass Medical Center in Worcester. The bus, carrying 30 passengers, was headed to the Mohegan Sun casino when its driver crashed through a Massachusetts Turnpike guardrail and stopped in the woods...

Medical Complications and Operating Room Deaths are Reduced When Safety Checklist is Followed, Says Harvard Study

Posted on January 15, 2009
Researchers from Harvard say that operating room deaths and medical complications are decreased by 1/3rd whenever nurses and doctors follow a 19-step checklist before, during, and after the surgical procedure. Their findings come from a international study involving eight hospitals...

Stork Craft and CPSC announce product recall of over 500,000 cribs due to suffocation and entrapment hazards

Posted on January 13, 2009
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Stork Craft Manufacturing are announcing the recall of some 535,000 Stork Craft Baby Cribs. They are telling consumers to stop using the cribs right away. Stork Craft will provide crib owners with a free replacement kit...

Deadly Boston Fire Truck Accident May Have Been Caused By Brake Failure, Says Survivors

Posted on January 11, 2009
Investigators looking into the deadly accident involving a Boston Fire Department ladder truck driving through an intersection and ramming into a high-rise apartment building are examining the vehicle?s brakes. The focus on catastrophic brake failure as a possible cause for the fatal crash comes after reports from survivors that the fire truck?s driver frantically pumped on the brakes in an effort to stop Ladder 26 from flying down Parker Hill Avenue before crashing into the building that housed a computer learning center where kids were working...

More Higher Quality Massachusetts Nursing Homes Are Located in More Affluent Areas, Says the Associated Press

Posted on January 08, 2009
An Associated Press review of the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ranking system found that Massachusetts nursing homes located in the state?s more affluent areas tended to receive higher ratings for quality than their counterparts in poorer counties...

Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Plymouth Police Alleges Police Brutality

Posted on January 07, 2009
In Massachusetts, the mother of 16-year-old Anthony McGrath is suing the town of Plymouth, former police chief Robert Pomeroy, and officers Edwin Almeida and Richard Tavares for his wrongful death. McGrath was shot by Almeida and Tavares following a high-speed motor vehicle pursuit on January 10, 2006...

Movie Star Dennis Quaid and his Wife Agree to $75,000 Medical Malpractice Settlement from Cedars-Sinai for Twins? Accidental Heparin Overdose

Posted on December 29, 2008
Dennis and Kimberly Quaid have reached a $750,000 medical malpractice settlement agreement with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the medication error that nearly killed their twin infants last year. Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone Quaid were accidentally administered 1,000 times the recommended dose of heparin, a blood thinner...

11 Boston Area Motor Vehicle Crashes Reported During Weekend Snowstorm

Posted on December 24, 2008
Police in the Boston area say at least 11 motor vehicle crashes occurred over the weekend. According to the National Weather Service, some 8.8 inches of snow fell from the sky on Friday, with another 3.7 inches of snow falling on Saturday and 3.8 inches on Saturday...

NTSB Investigate Continental Airlines Jet Crash that Injured Nearly 40 Passengers

Posted on December 23, 2008
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the Continental Airlines jet crash that occurred last Saturday as it took off from Denver International Airport. The plane accident took place a little after 6pm as the Boeing 737 was speeding down an airport runway...

Six Massachusetts Apartment Residents Are Sent To Boston-Area Hospitals Following Exposure To Carbon Monoxide

Posted on December 18, 2008
In Massachusetts, three children and three adults were taken to Boston-area hospitals for evaluation after a heating malfunction at their Dorchester apartment building released carbon monoxide into their rooms. The sound of carbon monoxide detectors going off prompted a fast evacuation of the premise...

54 MBTA Workers Kept Their Jobs After Failing Alcohol and Drug Tests

Posted on December 17, 2008
According to the Boston Herald, T substance abuse test results in the last three years show that 77 MBTA trolley operators, bus drivers, and train operators had tested positive for alcohol or drug use. Despite these results, only 21 of these MBTA workers were fired, while 2 other employees resigned...

Two Middleborough Teens Killed in Massachusetts Car Accident

Posted on December 12, 2008
Two Massachusetts teenagers died in Middleborough on Thursday after the 18-year-old driver lost control of his car and struck a tree. Driver Joseph W. DeYoung and his 17-year-old passenger, Brian McMahon, died from their injuries. DeYoung had just earned his driver?s license on December 2...

Leading Causes of Child Deaths Are Also Among Common Causes of Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths

Posted on December 10, 2008
Unicef and the World Health Organization say that 830,000 children are killed around the world in accidents. Their report, the World Report on Child Injury Prevention, is the first report to gather all known information on child injuries and deaths around the globe...

Marlborough Worker?s Widow to Receive $1.2 Million for Massachusetts Wrongful Death

Posted on December 04, 2008
The widow of a worker who died after he was crushed by 2,500 pounds of granite has settled her Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit with a company for $1.2 million. As part of the agreement, the name of the company that settled the lawsuit will remain confidential...

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled During Black Friday Shopping Sale Died From Positional Asphyxia

Posted on December 02, 2008
The attorney for the family of Jdimytai Damour, a seasonal Wal-Mart maintenance employee who died after being trampled by shoppers that were scrambling to enter the store during last week?s Black Friday sale, says that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could have done more to prevent the 34-year-old?s death...

One Fatality, One Injury, in Massachusetts Multi-Vehicle Crash Involving Tanker Truck

Posted on November 25, 2008
One woman is dead and five other people sustained injuries in a multi-vehicle collision in Littleton on Tuesday involving an empty tanker truck. The Massachusetts motor vehicle crash occurred at the intersection of Spectacle Pond Road and Route 2a. According to Fire Chief Stephen Carter, the elderly woman who died was in the vehicle that collided with the truck...

Boston Pedestrian Accidents Frequently Occur on Massachusetts Avenue

Posted on November 24, 2008
Students and workers on Massachusetts Avenue are complaining that the street is a danger zone for pedestrians. Aggressive drivers, multiple buses, motorcyclists weaving through traffic, speeding ambulances, faulty walk signals, and pedestrians talking on cell phones are some of the reasons they cite for why so many pedestrian accidents keep happening on this busy Boston road...

2 MBTA Workers Involved in Separate Massachusetts Train Accidents Test Positive for Substance Abuse

Posted on November 21, 2008
A Massachusetts Transportation Bay Authority spokesperson says that two MBTA workers who were involved in separate Green Line train accidents over the last week tested positive for alcohol or drugs. Both employees have been suspended without pay until the formal process for firing them is concluded...

Massachusetts Doctors Say Fear of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Compels Them to Practice Defensive Medicine

Posted on November 18, 2008
According to the Massachusetts Medical Society, many physicians in the state are so afraid that patients will sue them for medical malpractice that they order unnecessary procedures, hospital stays, tests, and referrals just to prevent lawsuits from happening...

Couple Files Massachusetts Motorcycle Accident Lawsuit Against the Town of Pepperell

Posted on November 13, 2008
A Pepperell couple is suing the town of Pepperell for personal injuries they sustained in a Massachusetts motorcycle collision in 2005. Edward and Jennifer DiNitto are suing the town for $500,000 to cover medical bills and lost wages. They filed the personal injury lawsuit in Lowell Superior Court...

Quincy Woman Who Lost Her Arm in Massachusetts Drunk Driving Accident is Awarded $5 Million for Personal Injury

Posted on November 11, 2008
An Essex Superior Court jury has ordered the 99 Restaurants of Boston and Haverhill resident David Kvinlaug to pay a Quincy woman $5 million for personal injury. Laurie Clifford lost her arm in a 2003 drunk driving accident. Kvinlaug, who was driving the car that Clifford was riding in, pleaded guilty to drunk driving and served 90 days in jail...

$13.5 Million Boston Wrongful Death Verdict Awarded to Family of Woman Who Died After Receiving Experimental Cancer Drug Treatment

Posted on November 06, 2008
In Boston, Massachusetts, a Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded the family of Amy Altman $13.5 million for her wrongful death. Altman died in July 2003 after undergoing a cycle of experimental chemotherapy to treat her cancer. The 40-year-old mother of two young girls, who sought treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was receiving chemotherapy for Ewing?s sarcoma once every two weeks instead of the standard treatment of once every three weeks...

Dorchester Crossing Guard Struck by Car in Massachusetts Traffic Accident Dies From Her Injuries

Posted on November 05, 2008
In Massachusetts, the 59-year old crossing guard who was struck by a car as she helped a 10-year-old across a Dorchester street has died. Marie Conley passed away one week after the October 21 pedestrian accident that took place outside Mathers Elementary School...

Mother and 9-Year-old Son Die in Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Accident While Trick-or-Treating

Posted on November 02, 2008
In Westfield, a mother and her nine-year-old son died on Halloween Night when they were struck by a car while trick-or-treating. Roberta A. Salois, 47, and Steven X. Smith-Salois were crossing the street when the deadly Massachusetts motor vehicle crash happened on South Maple Street, which is also called Route 202...

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