A Personal Injury Law Blog from SUGARMAN
Massachusetts is Officially Hands-Free! We have all seen drivers glued to their cellphone screens while sitting in Boston’s now infamous gridlock rush-hour traffic. Many of us have miss...
Topics: Auto Accident Law
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner. Retailers are preparing for swarms of shoppers, while parents are ready to grab the latest and greatest toys for their kids. With everyone cau...
Topics: Product Liability, Product Recalls
On September 24, 2019, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declared a public health emergency in response to the nationwide outbreak of lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette and vaping products. In re...
Topics: Product Liability
SUGARMAN is pleased to announce that seven of the firm’s attorneys have been selected as Super Lawyers. This elite group of only five percent of top lawyers in the country from over seventy practices ...
List Announced by U.S. New & World Report and Best Lawyers SUGARMAN is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked as one of the Best Law Firms in three select markets in Boston. The...
This month, a Massachusetts court held that Harvard University can be held liable for failure to prevent a student suicide. On September 12, 2015, Luke Tang committed suicide in his dor...
Topics: Third Party Liability
For over 50 years, PAM cooking spray has been a common household product, likely found in your pantry right now. This seemingly safe product has been abruptly exploding, injuring a number of people, s...
Topics: Product Liability
In 2018, 680 pedestrians were hit by cars in Boston. Over the past few weeks, countless tragic headlines have highlighted the dangers that pedestrians still face in Massachusetts. In response to the S...
Topics: Auto Accident Law
SUGARMAN is proud to announce that Principal, Marianne LeBlanc, has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. The special induct...
On September 20, 2019, the United States House of Representatives passed the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (“the FAIR Act”) by a vote of 225-186. First introduced to Congress in 2007, the bi...
Topics: Consumer Protection Laws
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