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…
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New Massachusetts Law Creates Increased Danger for Nursing Home & Hospital Patients
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…
Massachusetts Nursing Homes COVID-19 Update: DPH Releases List of Affected Facilities
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…
Recent Updates to Questions About Massachusetts Nursing Homes During COVID-19
Understandably, we are receiving a high number of calls from clients, friends and potential new clients who are worried about their loved ones in Massachusetts nursing homes, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, and assisted living facilities. A number of these facilities throughout the state have recently been reported to exhibit…
COVID-19 & Massachusetts Nursing Homes: What’s Worse – The Virus or The System?
The coronavirus epidemic has caused heartache enough for people who have been infected or lost loved ones due to the infection. And while everyone is (for the most part) understandably taking measures to protect themselves and safeguard their own health, who is protecting our seniors and the frail in Massachusetts…
Advisory from The Law Office of William D. Kickham & Associates: Update on Operations During COVID-19
Free Legal Consultation: Ph.: (781) 320-0062; Text to: (617) 285-3600. Or Click here to send us a confidential Contact Form. Like many attorneys, I’ve been getting a lot of calls recently from present and potential new accident and injury clients, who want to know how their cases are going to…
For Kickham Legal Injury Clients: COVID 19 Preparedness
While we’ve all been hearing about Coronavirus for the past two weeks or so, this past week has seen the most drastic and impacting of events surrounding this subject. Seemingly, almost everything has been shut down around us: Important government offices & agencies, colleges & universities , grammar & high…
New Massachusetts Hands-Free Cell Phone Law
As I’ve written about previously on both this blog and elsewhere, the Massachusetts Legislature finally woke up last fall and presented Gov. Charlie Baker with a bill with (supposedly) teeth in it to ban hand-held cell phone use in Massachusetts, and the Gov. signed it. After 90 days from signing,…
Thanksgiving Day 2019: It All Started In Massachusetts
Here it is Thanksgiving Day 2019, and I thought I’d post these thoughts before sitting down for dinner. Actually, I’ve made it a practice to contemplate on what I’m grateful for almost every day of the year that I can: It’s a smart habit to form. On a professional level,…
Background On Roundup Cancer Lawsuits: Part Two of Two
In Part One of my post on this subject, I discussed what Roundup is, what the history of these cases is, how cases are being brought to the courts, and what the possible values of these cases might be for people who have been exposed to it and have developed…