It’s summer, 2012. And with it comes marketing for more and more amusement park rides, such as the new ride that debuted at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Mass.: The roller coaster “Goliath.” Guests sit beneath the track with their feet dangling as they ascend a tower. Once at…
Given the fact that many people belong to health clubs these days, I’m often approached by people about their Massachusetts health club contracts. You see, (if you belong to a gym or health club,) you’ll learn that the standard contract terms that are used for these types of agreements by…
Harvard University is the crème de la crème of Ivy League schools; an institution that has fostered the best and the brightest. And now it finds itself caught up in a storm that has to do with a murder in one of its residence halls. And interestingly enough, none of…
A fatal Massachusetts premises injury resulted earlier this week when a backyard deck that a homeowner was working on suddenly collapsed, crushing him underneath it. George Carroll, 78, of Melrose was working on the deck when it suddenly became detached from the house. Firefighters responding to the scene could not…
In the past few weeks, four people have died in swimming pool accidents in Massachusetts – three children and a 36 year-old woman (the woman was found in a state-operated swimming pool, apparently several days after she died.) The Boston Globe and other media have covered these stories extensively. These…
A Suffolk Superior Court judge has awarded more than $6.7 million to the family of a Northeastern University student who died after falling down a set of stairs at a Boston bar in 2007, following a night of drinking. What’s surprising about the award in this Massachusetts premises liability case…
In my previous post on this subject, I wrote of how the law governing liability for injuries suffered on someone else’s property due to slipping or falling on snow or ice, has recently undergone some major changes. The changes come not from the Massachusetts Legislature, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial…
In the wake of last week’s major snowstorm, you won’t read a more timely or important post than this one – at least on the subject of Massachusetts personal injury law. The reason is that very recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC,) issued a landmark, critical decision in the…
In my previous post on this subject, I discussed why backyard swimming pools are generally a very strong liability risk. This type of liability broadly falls under an area of law known as “premises liability”. Legally, property owners in Massachusetts have an obligation to provide a safe environment for visitors…
Summer is usually a time when thoughts turn to cooling off and leisurely days around a swimming pool (especially during heat waves such as we’ve had recently here in Massachusetts.) That makes perfect sense, but in my view as a Boston accident lawyer, not enough people are aware of the…