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A Personal Injury Law Blog from SUGARMAN
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in attempts to protect women from the risk of developing breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (“BIA-ALCL”), requested that Allergan, ...
Topics: Product Liability, Product Recalls
A growing number of patients have filed lawsuits in Federal Court in Massachusetts for their defective Stryker hip implants. The litigation, for injuries suffered as a result of Stryker LFIT V40 metal...
Topics: Product Liability, Product Recalls
SUGARMAN is pleased to announce that principal Stacey L. Pietrowicz has been honored as one of the Top Women of Law in 2019. The Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly annual award celebrates outstanding achiev...
SUGARMAN is proud to announce that again this year, Marianne LeBlanc, Neil Sugarman, Paul Sugarman, Stephen Sugarman and Benjamin Zimmermann have been recognized and listed in the 2020 Edition of The ...
On January 12, 2015, Heather Oberdorf was walking her dog on a retractable leash that she bought on Amazon. Then her dog lunged forward, the leash catapulted back, and Heather became permanently blind...
As the beginning of the school year draws near, parents and children alike will rush to stores and stock up on school supplies. Between all the different products and brands, it can become hard to dis...
Topics: Product Liability, Product Recalls
Between 2003 and 2015, 3M Company provided the U.S. military with earplugs that were supposed to protect the hearing of service members. However...
Topics: Product Liability
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) recently released the report of the Steering Committee on Lawyer Well-Being: https://www.mass.gov/doc/supreme-judicial-court-steering-committee-on-lawy...
The firm is extremely pleased to announce that Elizabeth Pardy and Anyela Perez are the recipients of this year’s SUGARMAN Annual Law School Scholarship. Both candidates have exhibited academic ...
Last month, the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety published a report regarding patient injuries and death due to medical errors, or medical malpractice. The report found approximately 62,000 medi...
Topics: Medical Malpractice
According to a lawsuit by the State of Oklahoma, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) fueled the state's opioid crisis with deceptive marketing. The state claims that Johnson & Johnson downplayed the risks of opio...
Topics: Product Liability
After reports of at least 32 infant deaths nationwide, Fisher-Price recalled 4.7 million of their popular “Rock ’n Play Sleeper” units on April 12, 2019. Two weeks later, Kids2 recalled 36 models of b...
Topics: Product Liability