Most people who walk past a construction site think that the construction workers on the job there are probably very rarely injured, since that’s their line of work and they “know what they’re doing.” The truth is, Massachusetts construction site injuries are quite common. The work in general is very…
Crossing a trafficked street is a lot more dangerous than the average person thinks. The risk of serious injury increases with the volume of traffic present, a great deal of Massachusetts pedestrian-motor vehicle accidents happen this way. This was illustrated in a recent case settlement involving just such an accident,…
First, let me say to my readers that I’m sorry that I haven’t posted here in a while. I was extremely busy with cases in the first three weeks of December, then went on an extended Christmas & New Year’s holiday shortly thereafter. Besides that, however, there was another important…
Readers of this blog know that I’ve written previously about the problem of hospital alarm fatigue. It’s a new type of medical malpractice claim, and it’s not necessarily an easy problem to solve – at least not overnight. Very recently, a case of this type that was previously filed against…
The annual Harvard-Yale football game yesterday will be known not for its memorable play or a sudden-death win, but for a sudden death of another kind: A young woman was killed by the driver of a U-Haul truck that was transporting beer kegs and other tailgating supplies to the game,…
It is said that life is ironic. Occasionally an event comes along to prove that point, and today’s post is a tragic reminder of that. The case is ironic because it involves catastrophic consequences of medical negligence, with the victim being a doctor and surgeon. The plaintiff doctor, 61 years…
Consumers and product safety advocates won a victory recently, with a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. This court is the federal appellate court for Massachusetts and surrounding states; it hears appeals from the U.S. District Court in Boston, and other federal District Courts in…
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…
As a Dedham and Boston, Massachusetts medical malpractice lawyer, I frequently see Massachusetts personal-injury cases that could have been possibly avoided. In the latest example of this, a 65-year-old man was belatedly diagnosed with cancer of the sigmoid colon, which proved fatal. This case settled prior to trial for $1.5…
Medical negligence and medical malpractice usually involve mistakes in judgment on the part of a physician, nurse, or other health care provider. But an interesting source of medical negligence is on the rise in many American hospitals: It’s called “alarm fatigue”, and it most commonly affects nurses rather than doctors.…