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Massachusetts Man Files $9.9 Million Personal Injury Lawsuit Against the Middlesex Sheriff and the State Prison System From Behind Bars

Posted on May 22, 2008
In Massachusetts, Steven J. Huard, a prisoner at the Middleton jail in has filed a $9.9 million personal injury lawsuit in federal court against the Massachusetts State Prison System, the Middlesex sheriff, other Massachusetts officials, and several doctors...

OSHA Says Owners of Salem Harbor Power Station in Massachusetts Did Not Protect Workers that Died in 2007 Boiler Blast

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration says that the owners of the Salem Harbor Power Station failed to protect three workers that died when a faulty boiler ruptured at the plant on November 6, 2007. Following its investigation into the deadly work accident, OSHA says that it found 10 serious safety violations at the plant, owned by Dominion Energy New England, including a failure to enter or inspect the area where the blast occurred for the past several years...

NHTSA Says Summer Months Are the Deadliest Period for 15-Passenger Vans

Posted on May 15, 2008
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that the greatest number of deadly accidents involving 15-passenger vans take place from June through August each year. The NHTSA issued its latest report this month. According to the NHTSA, 31% of deadly 15-passenger van rollovers happen during this time because the summer holidays are a busy time for travel...

CAI Inc. Could Have Prevented Danvers, Massachusetts 2006 Factory Explosion, Says Federal Report

Posted on May 13, 2008
The US Chemical Safety Board says that the 2006 chemical explosion in Danvers, Massachusetts could have been avoided if ink manufacturer CAI Inc had implemented the proper safety measures at its factory. The safety board issued its findings today in a final report...

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Fall River Teenager Sues Massachusetts State Trooper For Personal Injury After Strip Search

Posted on May 05, 2008
In Massachusetts, Fall River resident Alyssa Bolduc, is suing Massachusetts State Trooper Allyson Powell for compensatory damages over a strip search that took place during a traffic stop in Dartmouth in March 2007. Bolduc, 18, says that she and three friends were pulled over because of an unlit headlight...

80 Massachusetts Workers Died From Job-Related Injuries in 2007

Posted on April 29, 2008
A report coauthored by the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO found that 80 Massachusetts workers died in 2007 because of injuries sustained while at work or because of work-related illnesses. The report is called "Dying for Work in Massachusetts...

Appeals Court Reduces Actor Robert Blake?s $30 Million Wrongful Death Judgment

Posted on April 27, 2008
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles has reduced the $30 million wrongful death judgment against actor Robert Blake to $15 million. Blake,74, had lost the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of his murdered wife Bonny Lee Bakley, but filed an appeal...

Boston-Area Psychiatrist is Sued for Prescription Overdose Death of 4-Year-Old Massachusetts Girl

Posted on April 24, 2008
In Massachusetts, Boston-area psychiatrist Dr. Kayoko Kifuji is being sued for the wrongful death of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley. Rebecca died in 2006 following an overdose of psychiatric drugs. The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, alleges that Rebecca was mostly prescribed drugs over the phone, using ?slipshod diagnosis...

MBTA Files Lawsuit Over Canton, Massachusetts Train Accident that Injured 150 and Caused Property Damage

Posted on April 21, 2008
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is suing CSX Transportation and Cohenno Inc, a Stoughton lumber company, and is accusing them of negligence, for allegedly causing a 112-ton freight car to crash into a commuter train in Canton on March 25...

Massachusetts Widow Sues PetSmart After Husband Dies From Rodent Virus Infection

Posted on April 17, 2008
Nancy Magee, a Whitman, Massachusetts woman, is suing pet store chain PetSmart for the death of her husband. Her wrongful lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, alleges that Thomas Magee and two other people became infected with a rodent virus during their transplant surgeries...

Sleepy Boston ?Big Dig? Construction Workers Not Eligible For Workers? Compensation

Posted on April 15, 2008
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court says that Michael Haslam, a construction worker on Boston?s ?Big Dig? freeway project, is not eligible to receive workers? compensation benefits for injuries he sustained when he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home after working for 27 hours straight...

Former Children?s Hospital Boston Pediatrician Is Sued For Sexual Abuse And Medical Malpractice

Posted on April 01, 2008
In Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts, an unnamed plaintiff has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit suing pediatrician doctor Melvin D. Levine for sexual assault, battery, and abuse from 1980 to 1985. This is not the first time that Dr. Levine has been accused of sexual abuse by a former patient...

Raynham, Massachusetts Drunk Driver Causes Injury Accident While Driving the Wrong Way

Posted on March 25, 2008
Anne Ferreira, the Raynham, Massachusetts woman who drover her 1996 Toyota Camry sedan the wrong way on the Route 25 freeway on March 11, is being charged with DUI. She crashed her sedan into a 1997 Buick LeSabre sedan. Both Ferreira and the driver of the sedan, 65-year-old New Bedford resident David McGowan, had to be pried from their motor vehicles...

Oprah Winfrey Show Audience Member Sues Harpo Productions For Fall Accident

Posted on March 24, 2008
Orit Greenberg, an audience member at the taping of the ?Oprah Winfrey Show? on December 5, 2006, is suing Harpo Studios for personal injury. Greenberg says that she suffered serious and permanent injuries when she fell down a flight of stairs during a mad rush by audience members to secure the best audience seats...

Massachusetts Gynecologist Sued for Wrongful Death

Posted on March 23, 2008
Dr. Rapin Osathanondh, the Massachusetts gynecologist whose patient died last September at his Women?s Health Center in Hyannis, is being sued for wrongful death. The wrongful death plaintiff is Eileen Smith, the mother of 22-year-old Laura Hope Smith, who died during an abortion procedure...

New York Crane Construction Accident Leaves Seven People Dead

Posted on March 20, 2008
Six construction workers and a Florida tourist died in a construction accident on Saturday after a crane collapsed at a construction site in New York. 10 other people were injured. The construction site was at a 43-year-old building that had already received multiple safety violations...

Haverhill, Massachusetts Woman Awarded $8.5 Million Verdict for Motorcyclist Husband?s Wrongful Death

Posted on March 18, 2008
Jackie Monahan, a Haverhill, Massachusetts, woman has won $8.5 million in the wrongful death lawsuit against Alexis Ortiz, the 22-year-old driver who was speeding when he killed her husband Larry, 54, who had been riding his motorcycle outside their residence on March 18, 2006...

Massachusetts Suspends Obstetrician?s Medical License Following Several Medical Malpractice Cases

Posted on March 14, 2008
Medical regulators in Massachusetts suspended the medical license of Dr. Suzanne B. Rothchild, a Winchester Hospital obstetrician. The Board of Registration in Medicine called Rothchild ?an immediate and serious threat to public health.? Since the board?s decision, Winchester Hospital has suspended Rothchild?s medical privileges...

Woman Sued for Wrongful Death in Deadly Massachusetts Car Accident

Posted on March 12, 2008
A woman who has been charged in the motor vehicle homicide death of a female pedestrian she accidentally struck outside a car wash in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is now the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by Roger Young, the husband of Robin Young, who was killed last year on June 16 at Hafner?s carwash, located on the Haverhill/Plaistow line...

Mother Considers Suing Massachusetts Water Park for Children?s Chemical Burn Injuries

Posted on March 10, 2008
A Connecticut woman is considering filing a personal injury lawsuit for the chemical burn injuries she says that her children sustained while swimming at CoCo Key Water Resort, a Danvers, Massachusetts water park. Kristen Baker says that her daughter Emily, 9, and son Austin, 11, experienced blisters, rashes, skin burns, and breathing problems after a visit to the resort during a chaperoned girl scout trip...

Series of School Bus Accidents Raise Issues of Children?s Safety

Posted on March 08, 2008
A recent string of school bus accidents across the United States have caused parents to question the safety of the transportation vehicle normally considered the safest type of transportation for school kids. Just this week, three people were injured, including one student on Friday near Zoarville, Ohio, when a school bus was involved in a multi-vehicle collision...

US Government Wants $3.1 Wrongful Death Verdict of Quincy Fisherman Allegedly Killed by James ?Whitey? Bulger Overturned

Posted on March 07, 2008
The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a wrongful death verdict awarding $3.1 to the family of Quincy fisherman John McIntyre for his murder. McIntyre was allegedly murdered by FBI Informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi...

Massachusetts Judge Approves Record $6 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement In Baby Birth Injury Case

Posted on March 06, 2008
In Massachusetts's Worcester Superior Court, a judge has approved a $6 million dollar medical malpractice settlement to be paid to Bruce and Susan Hanks and Jacob M. Hanks for the birth injuries suffered by Jacob. The settlement amount is the largest pretrial settlement amount ever approved in a medical negligence case filed in Massachusetts...

Supreme Court Considers Whether To Provide Drug Manufacturers Injury Lawsuit Protection

Posted on February 29, 2008
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case that could determine whether drug makers should receive a similar protection from lawsuits to the one the court granted to medical device makers last week. The main issue, according to Justice Stephen Breyer, is whether a drug, ?on balance,? will save people or hurt people...

Waltham Nursing Home Under Investigation for Problems with Patient Care

Posted on February 28, 2008
Piety Corner Nursing Home, a Waltham, Massachusetts nursing home, has been placed on a federal government list of facilities that have serious issues with patient care. The 34-bed facility must now undergo government reviews more often. In 2006, Piety Corner was cited for over two dozen violations?eight of which were considered actions that placed patients in immediate danger or harm, including: ? Failing to prevent neglect...

Judge allows $105 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against NBC?s ?Predator? for Suspect?s Suicide

Posted on February 27, 2008
A federal judge is allowing a $105 million wrongful death lawsuit against Dateline NBC: ?To Catch a Predator? to proceed. The lawsuit, brought by Patricia Conradt, alleges that her brother, Dallas prosecutor Louis William Conradt Jr. committed suicide because a sting operation accused him of having an online sexual conversation with someone pretending to be a 13-year-old boy...

Boston Couple Sues Funeral Home for Losing Stillborn Baby?s Remains

Posted on February 22, 2008
In Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts, the civil trial between a Boston couple and J.S. Waterman and Sons funeral home began on Thursday. Robert and Therese Bellisimo Benedict are suing the Boston funeral home for losing their stillborn son?s remains and possibly cremating him with the body of an adult woman...

Woman Files Products Liability Lawsuit Against Contact Lens Solution Manufacturer Advanced Medical Optics

Posted on February 21, 2008
A Texas woman has filed a products liability lawsuit against Advanced Medical Optics Inc. for its contact lens disinfectant Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose solution?s failure to properly disinfect her contact lenses. Kimlyn Cline, a contact lense wearer for 35 years, says she always cleans and disinfects her contact lenses properly and that the infection in her left eye occurred because she used the solution...

New England Patriots Sued $100 Million for Allegedly Taping Rams Practice

Posted on February 18, 2008
A lawsuit has been filed against the New England Patriots and their coach Bill Belichick for $100 million. The plaintiffs, former St. Louis Rams football player Willie Gary, a Rams seat license holder, and two 2002 Super Bowl ticket holders, claim that the Patriots defrauded St...

FDA Warns of Connection Between Botox and Botulism-Related Deaths

Posted on February 15, 2008
The Federal Drug Administration wants people to know that the anti-wrinkle drug Botox has been linked to several botulism related-deaths. A number of these victims were children. The warning comes three weeks after Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, cited 180 reported incidents?including 16 deaths?where people who had used Botox experienced pneumonia, difficulty swallowing, or fluid in the lungs...

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