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• Choosing a Personal Injury Lawyer

  Staff Writer | July 15, 2006 3:34 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  A claimant will often request the advice of his or her attorney when evaluating the value of a particular claim or case. I assume that this is because the attorney has greater exposure to jury verdicts, medical issues, case law, statutes, issues relating to liability and potential weaknesses--all factors that impact case valuation. In choosing a personal injury lawyer, it is important that the...

• Ashamed at the thought of bringing a lawsuit?

  Staff Writer | April 01, 2006 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Many prospective clients open our conversation with an apology. They feel ashamed for wanting to use the court system and bringing a lawsuit against a corporation or a doctor. They then assure me that they're not sue crazy, and that they have tried every other means of resolution apart from bringing a lawsuit. As I write this, powerful corporate interests lobby members of the legislature to...

• Mass Senate to Vote on Bad Bill

  Staff Writer | March 24, 2006 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  The Massachusetts House has passed a bill (H.B. 4701) that would prohibit certain types of lawsuits. H.B. 4701 has come out of the Senate committee and awaits a full vote of the Senate. The law will preclude certain lawsuits related to retail sales and a retailer's practice of charging more than the advertised price for goods sold. This bill is anti-consumer and seeks to eliminate,...

• International Air Travel and Airplane Injuries - Limitations

  Staff Writer | March 23, 2006 11:38 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Regardless of the injury (or loss of life), a claim against an airline for injuries that occured during international travel may be subject to strict limitations. The definition of "international travel" is strictly applied and will turn on locations listed on your passenger ticket. There may also be variations based on the countries to which you travelled. The evidence required to overcome...

• Massachusetts Auto Insurance Coverage: U Policies

  Staff Writer | March 23, 2006 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Massachusetts law requires drivers to purchase a minimum insurance policy of $20,000 per person and $40,000 per accident. Often this coverage is insufficient to cover even medical expenses related to the collision. A little known aspect of auto insurance law is U coverage... U policies, or policies covering motor vehicle collisions where the party at fault has either no insurance or not enough...

• ADHD Drugs Linked to Heart Risks

  Staff Writer | March 23, 2006 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Tom Lamb at drug-injury.com addresses the early release of Cardiologist Steven Nissen's article in the upcoming New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Nissen thinks the heart risks of ADHD drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall are great enough to warrant a black-box warning for the drugs.Black box warnings are given to drugs that carry a significant risk of serious side effects. The warnings are...

• Ineresting Premises Liability Ruling

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2006 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Ben Glass in Fairfax, VA discusses a premises liability case in Roanoke where the state Supreme Court ruled that the owner of a hotel had a dute to protect its guests from third-party violence.The case had previously been dismissed in a lower court. However, as Ben points out, hotel employees had called the police 96 times in the three years prior to the incident.As a result of these repeated...

• Hasbro Easy Bake Oven Recall

  Ken Margolin | July 19, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Underscoring the continued hazards to children, created by poorly designed toys, Hasbro recalled its Easy Bake Oven. Nearly a million of the toys have been manufactured. The oven is intended for young children. It is a small plastic replica of a real oven, electrically powered, that heats up internally to as hot as 400 degrees farenheit! No surprise - children have been getting burned - and...

• Victims of Medical Malpractice Face a Hard Fight

  Ken Margolin | July 11, 2007 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  This week's Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly newspaper reported a defendant's verdict in a sad case. The plaintiff had suffered a massive stroke leaving him paralyzed on half of his body and with other terrible deficits. The allegation was that the stroke was caused due to mismanagement of lung surgery following pneumonia. The case was tried by an attorney considered to be a very fine plaintiff's...

• Nursing Home Neglect Settlement

  Ken Margolin | June 07, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  A significant settlement in a disturbing case of nursing home neglect, was reported in this week's Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. A generally healthy, active, older women (exact age unspecified in the report), entered the nursing home for rehabilitation after a compression fracture. Darvocet, which the woman was taking for pain, has a known side effect for many people, of constipation. Despite...