One thing I can’t stand these days, is the growing proliferation of pharmaceutical advertising. Whether on TV, radio, or in print, it seems one can’t go anywhere or listen to anything without being bombarded by some usually laughable or ridiculous ad, (not uncommonly depicted with cartoon-like drawings,) pushing the latest…
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Mesh Product Doesn’t Mesh With Consumers: Product Liability Lawsuits Continue
Here’s yet another example of how a product snuck through the system, and has caused so much damage in women that there now exist hundreds of medical product liability lawsuits aimed at its manufacturer. Surgical mesh has been used in surgery for awhile. So when a new type of plastic…
Somerset Medical Malpractice Suit Settles for $2.5 Million
File this under “You Should Always Get A Second Medical Opinion.” Because you never know when a medical doctor is going to give you the wrong information, and the next thing you know, you suffer serious injuries as a result. Sometimes, that “bad medical advice” can lead to death. Such…
How Sweet It’s Not: Assisted Living Facility Liable For Injury From Cookie?
As a Boston-Dedham personal injury attorney, I’ve handled a great deal of personal injuries due to many forces, including cases of food poisoning. In fact, most people would be surprised to learn of the number of injuries that can result from improperly or negligently prepared food. In this case, the…
Attleboro Car Accidents on Route 95
Maybe it was the “curiosity factor,” but people still aren’t sure what happened in the string of car crashes that occurred on Sunday in Attleboro. Massachusetts State Police are investigating the incidents. The first Attleboro car crash occurred around 9AM on Sunday near Route One, and involved two cars. They…
Massachusetts Health Club Injuries: Are You Prevented From Suing For Negligence?
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…
Boston Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Averted Due To New “Apology Policy”
It’s the word we all never want to hear: cancer. That was the very word that Mary White heard on Friday afternoon in May 2007. Her gynecologist called her to say that the polyp that she had had removed a week prior was actually “an aggressive uterine cancer.” The gynecologist…
Cape Cod Car Crash Kills Recent Yale Graduate
As a Dedham-Boston car accident attorney, I’ve heard more than one story about a Massachusetts car accident that caused a fatality. And now, there’s yet another Massachusetts car crash that took the life of a young student who had just graduated from Yale University, in the class of 2012. Marina…
Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Accidents Kill Two This Memorial Day Weekend
Unfortunately, tragedies don’t take a holiday, and it’s unfortunate on this Memorial Day holiday weekend that two people have been killed in separate Massachusetts motor vehicle accidents. A truck-pedestrian accident occurred in Newton today that resulted in a man being killed in that accident. Newton police are currently investigating the…
Massachusetts Negligent Security Lawsuit Aimed at Harvard University
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…