Five years after a pyrotechnics display at a nightclub killed 100 people during a rock concert, the Great White band has reached a $1 million settlement agreement with survivors and victims families. Over 200 people were injured in the fatal fire. Great White band member Ty Longley also died in…
The Massachusetts family of Sean Lavalle, the Brookfield teenager who sustained second- and third-degree burn injuries on his right thigh during a 4th of July fireworks event at the beach on Walker Pond says that the exhibit, held by the Walker Pond Association, was handled by nonprofessionals. Lavalle and his…
In Massachusetts, 38 elderly residents and eight workers at the Taunton Nursing Home complex were sent to local hospitals after high levels of carbon monoxide was found in the building. Firefighters had to removed approximately 80 people from the building, evacuating the home’s north and old wings. Fire Chief Leman…
Orit Greenberg, an audience member at a taping of the “Oprah Winfrey Show” on December 5, 2006, is suing Harpo Studios for personal injury. Greenberg says that she suffered serious and permanent injuries when she fell down a flight of stairs during a mad rush by audience members to secure…
A Connecticut woman is considering filing a personal injury lawsuit for the chemical burn injuries she says that her children sustained while swimming at CoCo Key Water Resort, a Danvers, Massachusetts water park. Kristen Baker says that her daughter Emily, 9, and son Austin, 11, experienced blisters, rashes, skin burns,…
In Massachusetts, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Paul Chernoff is suing the state of Massachusetts and Norfolk County for the injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell on the steps of the Norfolk County Courthouse in Lowell in 2004. The commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Norfolk County Commission, and the Division…
The family of Cape Cod, Massachusetts resident Thomas Kelly was awarded $6.1 in the wrongful death lawsuit against Foxboro Realty Associates, Standard Parking, and Apollo Security. A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded the $4.4 million judgment on Tuesday. With interest, the total could reach $6.1 million. The judgment will be…
Boston University is increasing security measures following a rape that occurred in the Warren Towers campus dorm on September 30. The rape victim was a guest of one of the students living on the all-women floor of the co-ed dorm. She says she was raped in one of the dorm’s…
Authorities and investigators for Massachusetts and Essex County have determined that the death of 11-year-old Timothy DiLeo at Tenney Grammar School in Methuen was an accident. No criminal charges will therefore be filed in the case. DiLeo died after a heavy metal gate fell on him. His 8-year-old brother, Andrew,…