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A Personal Injury Law Blog from SUGARMAN
A recent life-threatening allergic reaction to a prescription medication at Brockton Hospital was likely a result of the provider experiencing alert fatigue. As reported by the Boston Globe last week...
Topics: Medical Malpractice
What should I do? If you’ve had the Medtronic HeartWare HVAD system implanted, or if you are an end-stage heart failure patient but unsure whether or not you are affected by the recall, you sho...
Topics: Product Recalls
This past weekend, 19 month-old Emeline Miller, daughter of Olympic skier Bode Miller, tragically drowned in a California swimming pool. Summer is here, and while swimming pools are perfect spots to g...
Topics: Premises Liability, Product Liability
A jury in Clayton County, Georgia, this week awarded a 20-year-old college student $1 billion in damages in her claim against a security company after she was raped by one of their armed guards. Ho...
Topics: Sexual Assault and Abuse
On May 22, 2018, SUGARMAN attorneys and staff laced up their running shoes for the fourth time to participate in the 11th Annual Lawyers Have Heart 5k Road Race to benefit the American Heart Associati...
Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that MIT was not responsible for the suicide of a graduate school student on its campus – but it also held that under certain circumstances...
Topics: Personal Injury Law
In the upcoming weeks approximately 383 high schools in Massachusetts will have a cause for celebration: Graduation Day! Families and friends will gather to celebrate this major milestone. Gradu...
Topics: Liquor Server's Liability
Have you ever imagined being on a busy highway surrounded by student drivers? It’s a scary thought, isn’t it? In certain US cities, it is a dangerous reality now that public roads are a testing ...
Topics: Auto Accident Law, Product Liability
Marianne LeBlanc, principal at Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C., has been installed as Secretary for the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). As Secretary, Att...
Boston's FOX 25 News recently reported on the aftermath of a tragic, preventable construction accident that killed a man working on the Wynn Casino project: EVERETT, Mass. - The family of a construct...
Topics: Construction Accident Liability
Who has the highest risk to be seriously hurt or killed in a car crash? Pedestrians. As the New England snow melts and the weather warms, an increasing number of people will be out and about. After...
Topics: Auto Accident Law
The first reported fatality caused by a “self-driving” car on a public road occurred in Tempe, Arizona, this past Sunday, and we are left to ask “who’s responsible?” As reported by CNN, the autonomous...
Topics: Auto Accident Law, Personal Injury Law