InjuryBoard Boston Archives

• U.S. Senator Joe Biden and Port Security - National Security

  Staff Writer | March 25, 2006 3:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Boston is one of many international trade ports in the United States. Senator Joe Biden discusses the importance of increasing port security and funding a relatively fail safe port screening with pre-existing "Star Wars" budgets. The Star Wars defense system (brainstormed during the Reagan Administration) absorbs about $8 Billion a year in federal funding and is intended to defend against...

• Mass Senate to Vote on Bad Bill

  Staff Writer | March 24, 2006 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  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,...

• Massachusetts Judge Enjoins Book Distribution

  Staff Writer | March 24, 2006 12:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Boston Herald reports today that an Essex County judge may have banned a book authored by a Methuen man who wrote about losing the custody of his son. The decision has not been released, but it would seem that First Amendment (Freedom of Speech) issues may be involved and that the decision is likely to be appealed. The Boston Herald Article has more information about the circumstances...

• International Air Travel and Airplane Injuries - Limitations

  Staff Writer | March 23, 2006 11:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Injury During Delivery - Shoulder Dystocia and Brachial Plexus

  Staff Writer | March 23, 2006 3:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Mulitple pre-delivery factors may be asessed by your OBYN to determine whether you will have a complicated delivery. The existence of such factors, known as risk factors, may be determined... by the use of ultrasounds.

• ADHD Drugs Linked to Heart Risks

  Staff Writer | March 23, 2006 9:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  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...

• Medical Malpractice "Crisis" Ends

  Staff Writer | March 22, 2006 4:51 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Chicago personal injury lawyer Jordan Margolis offers his take on the Americans For Insurance Reform study saying malpractice premiums have stabilized over the past six months and lays into the people who support tort reform, including the Insurance Industry and the media:Shame on each and every cowardly legislator and executive official who voted to deprive the most seriously injured victims...

• Ineresting Premises Liability Ruling

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2006 9:10 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  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...