An hit-and-run accident this week in Fall River left a 52-year-old woman with a broken leg and other serious injuries. Police allege that 32-year-old Antonio Martis hit Donna Adams as she was crossing the street after leaving a bakery, got out of the car and looked at her, then backed…
As our Boston injury lawyers have mentioned before, sometimes we cover cases and incidents occurring outside of Massachusetts. In this post, we would like to address whether or not a state can be sued for injury or death when a child placed under its supervision gets hurt. In Maine, the…
In a story making national headlines, the two sons of a missing Utah woman have died in a blast engineered by their father, Josh Powell, who died along with them in Washington State. Powell had lost custody of his two sons, Braden, 5, and Charles, 7, and had just been…
According to news reports, forty-seven-year-old Barbara Wood of Middleborough died today aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while it was off the Florida coast. She apparently slipped on stairs and fell down a staircase, and hit her head. Although rushed to the infirmary, Wood was pronounced dead approximately an hour…
This past weekend, there were at least two reported incidents of individuals falling through ice into the frigid water below. The winter weather this weekend-the first major snowfall in the state this year-appeared to bring many people outside to engage in winter sports such as skiing, ice skating, and snowmobiling.…
News reports indicate that a Stoneham, Massachusetts man was hit by a sports utility vehicle when running across Interstate 93 in Somerville this week. The man’s car was apparently damaged, due to the overnight winter weather and icy roads, and he stopped his car in the left hand lane. He…
According to media reports, 66-year-old Cheryl Blair is struggling to recover and battling an infection one week after she was accidentally shot by an off-duty state trooper on New Year’s Eve. Trooper John Bergeron was hunting at the time and made the mistake of thinking that one of her golden…
Last week, our Boston injury lawyers published a blog post about a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study on text messaging and cell phone use while driving. As evidenced by the number of distracted driving fatalities that happened in 2010, too many people are dying because there are drivers…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published its 2010 Fatality Analysis Reporting System, and our Boston injury lawyers are pleased to report that the latest figures show that last year saw a drop in Massachusetts motor vehicle crash deaths. There were 314 traffic fatalities in the state in 2010,…
According to the Boston Globe, Segway accidents have resulted in at least 10 injuries in this city in the last 12 months. Nine of the incidents involved fall accidents off the Segways. A tenth incident involved a person on a Segway getting hit by a car. Four of the Boston…