President Barack Obama, in his State of The Union speech Monday evening, made another reference to the supposed need for tort reform; to ‘control the rise in health care costs.’ I bristle at these kinds of mentions, for two reasons: 1) They demonstrate how successful liability insurers have been in…
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…
I love to report and comment on stories like this: A Massachusetts personal injury case that results in solid justice to the plaintiff. Readers of a certain age and above will remember that back in the late 1970’s and early ’80’s, tobacco companies would literally give away samples of their…
Someone made a film in the recent past, about a couple that was accidentally left stranded on a ski lift, high above a mountain. Slowly freezing to death and unable to jump from the chair height, the couple faces a harrowing ordeal. Something not too far from that happened just…
Most people who know me, know that as a Massachusetts product liability lawyer, I have a natural mistrust for big business. I’ve seen too many examples of their disregard for consumers’ safety and related interests, whether dealing with insurance companies, big banks, auto manufacturers or drug manufacturers. If anyone doubts…
Today is Thanksgiving Day, and so if this post can offer anything to be grateful over, perhaps you can say that you’re grateful you weren’t injured or killed by the negligence of the people who built Boston’s famous Big Dig tunnels. (You know, the same tunnels which ended up leaking…
In a hopeful sign that more aggressive action is being taken against schools, public and private, that do not begin to act aggressively to monitor and punish bullying, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) earlier this week took some firm action. DOE sent letters to hundreds of schools across the…
The most recent example of how social media has come to bring the culture in this country down even further, is yet another tragic tale: Tyler Clementi, an 18 year-old gay student at Rutgers University, took his life earlier this week by jumping off the George Washington Bridge in New…
In my previous post on this story, I discussed the horrific events surrounding the murders of the wife and two daughters of Dr. William Petit, in the 2007 Cheshire, Connecticut home invasion murders. I’ll now discuss why I believe there is a distinct possibility that the Cheshire Connecticut Police Department…