Posts tagged General Personal Injury

• Hunting Deaths

  Ken Margolin | December 14, 2006 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last week, an 18 year old woman living in South Paris, Maine, was shot and killed by a hunter, while she was at the edge of the woods a short distance from her home. Every year during hunting season in hunting-intense states - especially deer hunting season - there are fatalities and many more non-fatal gunshot injuries. Residents and visitors of states in which hunting is a tradition, must be...

• Car versus Truck Accidents Far More Dangerous

  Ken Margolin | December 06, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to the American Automobile Association ("AAA"), American motorists share a fear of being involved in accidents with large trucks. That communal fear is not unreasonable. Approximately 5000 people are killed annually in accidents involving passenger cars and commercial trucks. Fatal car-truck crashes are all too common. While many states have placed limits on the size of trucks' rigs,...

• Traffic Injuries are Not Inevitable

  Ken Margolin | December 04, 2006 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A recent article on traffic injuries, written by researchers at a non-profit organization affiliated with Emory University, states that worldwide, traffic accidents cause 1 million fatalities and over 20 million injuries per year. The authors (Lauren P. Giles, B.A.; Elisabeth S. Hayes, M.B.A.; and Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.P., Road Traffic Injuries: Can we Stop a Global Epidemic?), draw the...

• Construction Accidents Continue

  Ken Margolin | November 30, 2006 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  An ongoing theme on this blog site is the hazards of construction work and the justifiable liability for companies that negligently put workers at risk. Two more significant settlements were reported this week in Massachusetts, resulting from serious accidents at construction sites. In the first case, an ironworker fell to his death from a scaffolding 65 feet in the air. A piece of structural...

• Dog Bites

  Ken Margolin | November 20, 2006 6:30 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In a 19 year period from 1979 through 1998, the federal Center for Disease Control, reports that more than 300 Americans died from dog bite attacks. Giving an idea of the scope of the danger - an astounding 800,000 Americans sought medical care because of dog bites in a single reported year. Most dog attacks involved a lone dog, and not surprisingly, while any breed of dog can bite, pit-bulls,...

• Easy Open Pill Bottles Unsafe for Children

  Ken Margolin | November 20, 2006 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Following demographics, many pharmaceutical companies are making so-called "EZ Open" pill bottles designed for adults with arthritis in their hands. The problem is that some of the bottles can also be readily opened by children. The danger of a medication overdose to a child is made greater because many pills are colorful and sugar-coated, making them attractive to a child. Recently, a...

• Major Construction Accident and Nursing Home Negligence Settlements Reported

  Ken Margolin | November 17, 2006 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Three significant personal injury settlements were reported in this week's Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly newspaper. Two of the cases were construction accident cases. In one, a worker suffered a crushed foot when a jersey barrier tipped over on him while he was removing temporary wooden railings and installing jersey barriers alongside the highway. While the employer could not be sued because of...

• Workers Compensation and Third Party Actions

  Ken Margolin | November 17, 2006 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Workers compensation statutes provide a necessary assurance that workers injured on the job will receive compensation while they are out of work, regardless of who was at fault for the injuries. We can't go back to days when injured workers might be on their own to provide for their families if the carelessness of the worker or a co-worker were alleged to have caused the accident. Worker...

• Dangerous Premises

  Ken Margolin | November 16, 2006 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  One of the fastest growing areas of tort law is premises security. These cases occur when someone is injured because of a property owner's negligence. Amongst the most significant, and sometimes terrifying, types of dangerous premises cases result from robberies, muggings, or sexual assaults in parking lots or garages.Not every criminal act will give rise to a premises liability lawsuit. A...

• Worker Safety

  Ken Margolin | November 16, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I visited a shipyard yesterday to view a lift machine involved in a client's severe injury. As is always the case on a site visit to a place of heavy construction or machinery, I noticed the many ways a worker could be hurt or killed in an instant. In the shipyard, cranes hoisted muti-ton parts high above. Pipes heavy enough to crush were being rolled into place in an area where workers...