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The Associated Press is reporting via Google News that "a Massachusetts gun-maker has agreed to pay nearly $600,000" to the families of two men (one wounded one killed) by a gun said to be stolen from the company, Kahr Arms. See the AP article here: Mass. gun-maker to pay $600K in gun-death lawsuit

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A report in the Boston Globe reveals that 59 percent of medical malpractice claims filed are simply abandoned, according to a new study published by the Journal of Health Affairs: Dropped Medical Malpractice Claims: Their Surprising Frequency, Apparent Causes, And Potential Remedies. Information from the abstract of the study, authored by Dwight Golann, a professor at the School of Law, Suffolk

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Channel 5 carries the news story of the family of a woman who died from a medication error at Mass General Hospital filing a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit. Andrew C. Meyer, Jr. attorney for the family states in the item that "This was a systemic failure within the hospital, within the nursing practices of the hospital and with the doctor's oversight responsibility — clear

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Listen to this WBUR report from Bob Oaks on proposed changes to medical malpractice laws in Massachusetts by Governor Deval Patrick. Quoting the story: Under proposed changes, doctors in Massachusetts would be able to apologize to patients — without the risk that their apology could be used against them later, in court. The state would also implement a six-month “cooling off period,” so that

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Each year Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly complies the largest reported verdicts and settlements of the previous year of $1 million or more. And each year, one firm stands apart — Lubin & Meyer PC. The Boston-based personal injury and medical malpractice law firm dominates the list year after year. In 2010, Lubin & Meyer attorneys accounted for 20 of the largest settlements listed — nearly 1/3 of

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New England Cable News reporter Alysha Palumbo reports from Boston on February 16 on lawsuit naming an ambulance company as liable in the death of 68-year-old woman.

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Bloomberg News reports that Pfizer will pay triple damages totaling $142.1 million for marketing practices of its epilepsy drug, Neurontin, found to be in violation of U.S. racketeering laws. "U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston yesterday upheld a jury’s finding that Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals deserved the award over the companies’ claims that Pfizer

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Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has published the annual largest verdicts round up in its January 20, 2011 4:38 pm Thu, January 20, 2011 issue: "Two Boston trial lawyers took on Big Tobacco and won the largest jury verdict in the state last year in a wrongful death suit that exposed a disturbing campaign to distribute menthol cigarettes to inner-city children. The $152

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The Boston Globe reports in Young employees sometimes find themselves in harm’s way and face injury or death, that:"Young people tend to find employment outside white-collar occupations, taking jobs where the risk is higher for workers of all ages. By definition, teens are inexperienced at the work they do, heightening their chances of injury. Because eight out of 10 teenagers are employed

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The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled this week in a historic decision regarding snow removal and slip and fall injuries. A Boston.com article reports on the ruling saying..."...the state’s high court ruled yesterday that landowners must make sure their property is clear of any snow and ice that could cause injury to others, regardless of whether the snow came from Mother Nature or from a plow

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) — Seven partners from Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C., have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and are featured in the Boston's Best Lawyers 2010 Edition, a supplement to the Boston Globe. One of the feature stories is that of Neil Sugarman, named by Best Lawyers as "Lawyer of the Year" for Product Liability

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Boston, MA -- Lubin & Meyer PC is pleased to announce that three of its Boston trial attorneys have been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Founder Andrew C. Meyer, Jr. has been named every year since Best Lawyers inception in 1995 in both Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. Robert M.

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Lawyer James Sokolove seeks permission to set up shop in R.I. | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence JournalAccording to the article in The Providence Journal:"Sokolove is not seeking to practice law in Rhode Island, but instead open a branch of his Delaware-based firm here, court papers show. South Dakota is the only other state in which he does not have a presence. A lawyer must be

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An article in the The National Law Journal and Law.com details key court opinion involving mid-trial jury deliberations. In the article by Sheri Qualters, the Massachusetts high court let stand a $6 million jury judgment in a personal injury case. As reported on Law.com:"The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' July 16 unanimous ruling in Kelly v. Foxboro Realty Associates LLC, heard by six

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SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) July 31, 2009 -- Personal injury attorney Anthony Tarricone of Hamilton, Mass., has been eleced president of the trial lawyers group, American Association of Justice. Tarricone is a partner at the aviation law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP. See full article here: Trial Lawyers

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$6 Million Verdict Survives Judge's Error on Mid-Trial Jury DiscussionsBy Sheri QualtersThe National Law JournalJuly 21, 2009Here is a pointer to an important decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court regarding jury predeliberation discussions as found on Law.com ... The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' July 16 unanimous ruling in Kelly v. Foxboro Realty Associates LLC, heard

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Amusment Co. faces criminal charge in climbing wall deathFrom the Boston Globe: Danvers firm faces criminal chargeA Danvers-based company was indicted yesterday in the 2005 death of a Saugus woman, who fell from an inflatable climbing wall, in a rare case of an amusement ride company being charged criminally in the state.Read full article on Boston.comPosted using ShareThis

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Big Dig contractor pleads guilty - The Boston Globe"The largest contractor on the Big Dig [Modern Continental] pleaded guilty yesterday to 39 federal charges of overbilling and lying about construction defects on the project, but prosecutors dropped five other charges that had implicated the company in the fatal 2006 collapse of the ceiling of the Interstate 90 tunnel."Click to read complete news

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The average amount for a medical malpractice claim paid in Massachusetts for 2007 is $530,963. This is the third highest avg. claim paid in the nation according to statistics compiled by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, whose statehealthfacts.org web site. The two states ranking higher than Massachusetts in avg. size of claim paid are Wyoming and Illinois with $641,692 and $634,971 per

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Errors test openness at Beth Israel Deaconess - The Boston GlobePosted using ShareThis

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OK, more on the $13.5M medical malpractice lawsuit involving a women who died of a "massive flesh-eating bacteria infection" while undergoing experimental chemotherapy treatment at Dana-Farber hospital in Boston, MA. (I used the handy Share This tool which allows me to quickly post it to this site, but doesn't allow adding more info.)The original news story on the wrongful death jury award is

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$13.5m awarded in hospital death - The Boston GlobePosted using ShareThis

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Law.com carries this article on the recent $60 million settlement between pharmaceutical company Pfizer with 33 states attorneys general: Pfizer Settlement Over Marketing of Celebrex Contains Far-Reaching Restrictions.According to the article, the settlement over the company's alleged off-label marketing of pain medication Bextra and arthritis drug Celebrex "includes a sweeping list of new

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This Forbes.com article credits Massachusetts with an interesting distinction -- in the state, poisoning has eclipsed car crashes as the number one cause of accidental death. According to the article, America's Accident Capitals..."In the past five years, more people have died in the U.S. from accidental poisoning than any other form of unintentional death except for motor vehicle accidents....

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This article goes into more detail on the Big Dig $28M Settlement and notes that all 18 defendents were insured by AIG. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, 18 Businesses Pay $28M Wrongful Death Settlement In Big Dig Death | AHN | October 5, 2008Posted using ShareThis

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According to today's Boston Globe, the family of the woman who was crushed to death by falling ceiling tiles' in the "Big Dig" tunnel accident have reached the final settlement in lawsuits related to the death. In an article headlined, Family to get $28m in Big Dig death:"Milena Del Valle's family agreed to accept a total of $18.1 million yesterday from construction contractor Modern Continental,

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While awaiting a settlement in the wrongful death personal injury lawsuit of Milena Del Valle, Emily Rooney turns to Boston personal injury lawyer Andrew Meyer to explain how such a process works and what to expect in compensatory and punitive damages. Meyer is founding parter of law firm Lubin & Meyer, Boston, MA. Below is an excerpt from their conversation.

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Just setting up this site to collect and filter news and trends related to Personal Injury Law in Massachusetts. Stay tuned for more...

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