A Personal Injury Law Blog from SUGARMAN
Last Tuesday, a worker tragically died after the excavator he was operating fell about 200 feet down a ravine near Leland Hill Road in Sutton, Massachusetts. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Appar...
Topics: Construction Accident Liability, Personal Injury Law, Wrongful Death
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement recalling Active Brand’s AS Sweet Protection-branded Ripper Jr., Ripper MIPS Jr., and Ripper MIPS bicycle helmets this week. The Commis...
Topics: Consumer Protection Laws, Product Liability, Product Recalls
With the heat of summer upon us, many Massachusetts residents are taking to the water. With beaches either overly crowded making social distancing difficult, or closed due to Coronavirus concerns, b...
Topics: Boat Liability, Personal Injury Law, Wrongful Death
In response to the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”), along with support from the Department of Treasury, implemented the Pay Check P...
Topics: Personal Injury Law
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
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...
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...
In September 2016, 34-year-old Laura Levis collapsed just outside the locked doors of the Somerville Hospital emergency room. By the time she was found, she was in cardiac arrest, and she passed away ...
Topics: Medical Malpractice
On December 6, 2018, Dracut physician Dr. Richard Miron was indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury on the charges of Illegal Prescribing of Controlled Substances, Involuntary Manslaughter, and Medi...
Topics: Medical Malpractice
Did you know? Children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than on any other day of the year. Pedestrian fatalities on Halloween reached 5,987 – the highes...
Topics: Auto Accident Law
According to new federal data, most nursing homes have been underreporting their staffing levels to the government for the past decade. It was discovered that seven out of ten nursing homes had lower ...
Topics: Nursing Home Liability
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