Verdicts and Settlements

Craneway collapse at Fore River Shipyard  Settlement for the four young children of a construction worker who was killed when a massive steel craneway collapsed. The general contractor failed to develop an engineering or demolition plan for the dismantling of the craneway and made cuts to the craneway that left a portion of it a free standing structure without securing the it or warning any of the workers at the site of the danger posed by the free standing structure.

Death in ICU  Settlement of a medical malpractice case against a hospital for failure to monitor and respond to a patient's respiratory distress in the ICU resulting in the death of the patient, a 38-year-old mother of two young children.

Death of newborn  Verdict awarded to parents of a newborn whose death resulted from doctor's failure to respond to emergency during labor.

Defective aerial lift control design  Settlement for an electrical apprentice working on the big dig. Worker suffered an abdominal crush injury and an esophageal tear because of a malfunction with the bucket controls.

Defective aerial lift design  Settlement for the child's family when young boy suffered severe brain damage that left him paralyzed, unable to speak or care for himself when an aerial lift truck he was riding in tipped over because of a defect in its design.

Defective apartment window screen  Settlement from manufacturer, seller and landlord. Toddler fell out of a third-floor apartment window due to dangerous design, installation, and maintenance of the window screen, resulting in severe brain and orthopedic injuries to the child.

Defective hammer drill  Jury award in a product liability case to a union plumber for severe hand injury while using a defective hammer drill.

Defective plastic injection molding machine  Settlement for machine operator's hand injury against machine manufacturer for defective design of control panel.

Defective roof deck railing  Settlement from landlord for tenant who fell six stories when he leaned on railing which gave way.

Defective shopping center access road  Settlement for family of pedestrian killed after being hit by a car because of failure to install barrier or guardrail in a shopping center access road.