The personal injury attorney for a 6-year-old girl is asking to sue the state of Connecticut for the psychological and emotional injuries she sustained from the deadly shooting that killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The injuries to a minor case seeks $100 million in damages. Generally, permission…
Four large retailers are conducting their own recall 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners following. The manufacturer, Baby Matters, LLC is not involved in this latest recall. The sellers include Amazon.com, Diapers.com, Babies R Us/Toys R Us, and Buy Buy Baby. The move comes just weeks after the CPSC sued Baby…
A tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has claimed the lives of at least 20 kids between the ages of 5 and 10, and seven adults, including shooter Adam Lanza, 20. One other victim was hurt. According to the media, Lanza shot at his victims in…
Two years after Delvonte Tisdale fell out of a flying Boeing 737 and landed in a Boston suburb, his family is suing US Airways, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and the city of Charlotte, NC for his wrongful death. The tragic accident involving the 16-year-old in November 2010 made national headlines after…
Maxfield and Oberton, the manufacturer of Buckycubes and Buckyballs, says that it is discontinuing the popular magnet desk toy. The decision to stop selling this product comes in the wake of pressure from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which filed a lawsuit contending that the product is a danger to…
According to “Walking Safely, A Report to the Nation,” teenagers are now the most at risk group for becoming involved in a pedestrian accident. The study, from FedEx and Safe Kids Worldwide, looks at the trends in US child pedestrian fatalities and injuries over the last 15 years. Per the…
According to a recent survey, almost 3,000 students sustained some type of Massachusetts head injury while playing sports last year. 164 schools participated in providing such information. About 525 Massachusetts schools did not make the reporting deadline for the survey. The survey comes following a new state law regarding statewide…
Another plaintiff has stepped forward claiming that he too was sexually abused by the Donald J. Fitzpatrick, the ex-clubhouse manager for the Boston Red Sox. The plaintiff, Gerald Armstrong, is a former Kansas City clubhouse attendant. He is just one of numerous men suing the baseball team for Massachusetts injury…
Another family is alleging Massachusetts child abuse involving the Lexington public schools. 17-year-old Robert Ernst, who is now a senior at Lexington high school, said that when he was a third grader at Estabrook, teachers and aides would physically restrain him. Ernst, who has Asperger’s, claims that teachers would hold…
Last Friday on September 14, 2012, a Fitchburg teenager suffered a broken neck during a high school football game. Initially, nobody was aware of any kind of injury happening. During the first quarter of the Nashoba/Fitchburg football game, the teenager, while playing cornerback and wearing the number 30, took an…