While the 1990’s saw a string of very large settlements from class actions against various individual tobacco companies and the tobacco industry in general. One class action settlement in particular involved hundreds of millions of dollars paid to state governments that sued the tobacco industry for the hundreds of millions…
With the actual arrival of a coronavirus vaccine now just days away, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar stated on CBS’ Face The Nation today that “all” nursing home residents could receive vaccinations by Christmas. Because I’ve received so many requests for help and legal representation by the…
In Part One of my post on this subject, we discussed how dangerous and severe Massachusetts Construction Site Accidents can be. Due to these realities, workers compensation payments alone for such catastrophic construction site accidents -which consist mostly of reimbursement for medical bills and lost wages – will often be…
The title to the above post is a good one, because when construction site workers suffer on-the-job injuries, who pays for those injuries can often be confusing, due to Massachusetts Workers Compensation laws, governed by M.G.L. Ch. 152. That’s because employees who are injured (or killed) while on the job…
As readers of this blog and family members who have loved ones in nursing homes and long term care facilities know all too well, for nearly the past six months, family members have been unable to visit their loved ones, due to Covid-19 restrictions. This has caused heartache and…
In a narrow, but nonetheless positive decision in the area of public safety at Massachusetts colleges and universities, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently issue a ruling that clarifies and confirms a University’s legal obligations to intoxicated students. Previous to this ruling, colleges and universities almost universally took the…
Those three words are what most dog owners would say about their beloved pet, whenever someone has been the victim of a dog bite. I know – both as a plaintiffs’ attorney representing victims of dog bites – as well as a dog lover myself. Dogs are wonderful creatures: They…
For nearly the past four months, our way if life in this state and country has been turned almost completely upside down. We’ve been forced in to “lockdown”, workplaces shut, schools closed for months on end, and everyone required to “practice social distancing”. Now it’s summer, with its glorious heat…
Readers of my blog know of my devotion to protecting the legal rights and the health & dignity of nursing home patients, “memory care” patients, as well as hospital and rehabilitation center patients. These people are the elders who raised us, and they are now among the most vulnerable and…
We hope that you’ve been dealing as well as you can with all the frustration from what can only be described as this awful situation with COVID-19, and that our previous posts on this subject have been of help to you. Predictably, a number of Massachusetts nursing homes and rehabilitation…