Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• Managed Competition and Your Personal Injury Coverage

  Bruce Bierhans | May 29, 2009 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  With Managed Competition now here in Mass; and liability carrier commercials flooding the airwaves, I thought a little motor vehicle insurance primer was in order. In this economy, I find that many...

• Hemophilia and AIDS: William Modestino, Jr. Tribute to a Son

  Bruce Bierhans | May 08, 2009 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As I read the corporate blather this month about tort reform, I am reminded of a case I tried in May and June of 2001. It was about Bill Modestino, Jr. a courageous young man and hemophiliac that...

• Car Accidents/The Strategy of the Opposing Adjuster

  Bruce Bierhans | March 31, 2009 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We read daily about car accidents. All of these accidents, those that are serious with serious injuries, as well as those that are not so serious, have one thing in common. The minute an adjuster...

• Woman Killed in MBTA Escalator Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 24, 2009 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  An elderly woman, 82, died after becoming stuck in an escalator in a subway station. Helen Jackson was leaving the State Street Station at 10 a.m. when she fell and her clothes became stuck in...

• Nursing Home Ratings

  Bruce Bierhans | January 04, 2009 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Believe me...when I wrote my last post on Nursing Homes in my Cape Cod Barrister blog on Cape Cod Today, I had no idea that nursing home grading would be the headline story in the Cape Cod Times...

• Nursing Home Neglect

  Bruce Bierhans | December 04, 2008 2:22 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  We are seeing an increase in calls from individuals complaining about the care and treatment received by family members in nursing homes. We are hearing horror stories about bedsores, falls, broken...

• Mass SJC Allows "Loss of Chance" Recovery

  Bruce Bierhans | August 01, 2008 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a spectacular decision this week affirming victims rights, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that damages are recoverable where a physicians negligence reduced the decedents chance...

• Jury Awards Parents $1.5M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Fraternity

  Chrissie Cole | December 05, 2007 3:17 AM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The parents of a Plattsburgh State freshman who died on March 12, 2003 after 12 days of continuous hazing, has been awarded $1.5 in a wrongful death lawsuit against one of the fraternity members.The New York Supreme Court has ordered him to pay the family $1 million in punitive damages, $400,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 for wrongful death.He'd been deprived of sleep for days,...