A Personal Injury Law Blog from SUGARMAN
On December 9, 2019, a Safety Review Report was published on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The report found the MBTA’s approach to safety concerning and questionable. Since th...
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
Around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, December 1, 2018, a car collided with a school bus on Route 34 in Berkley, MA. Both vehicles went off the road and into the woods, with the bus reportedly rolling three t...
Topics: Auto Accident Law, Liquor Server's Liability
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
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
Britax, a popular manufacturer of childcare products such as strollers, car seats, and highchairs, is being sued by the federal government in an attempt to stop the company from continuing its sale of...
Topics: Product Liability