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A Personal Injury Law Blog from SUGARMAN
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
Despite continued progress in patient safety rules, the number of patient injuries and death due to errors by medical staffs at hospitals in Massachusetts has not gone down. This revelation comes in a...
Topics: Medical Malpractice
Late Saturday morning, June 8, 2019, a single-car Green Line trolley was traveling down its usual route from Kenmore station to Fenway when it suddenly derailed. The trolley struck the side of a subwa...
Massachusetts charitable organizations are given special protections under the law. It is widely known that these entities reap tax and other financial benefits. A lesser-known special treatment given...
Topics: Medical Malpractice
SUGARMAN Principals, Benjamin Zimmermann and David McCormack, represented an Ohio family in their claims for the severe and tragic brain injuries suffered by their son at Massachusetts General Hospita...