A case of fortuitous timing has prompted state’s highest court to allow a woman who broke her foot when she slipped in an icy parking lot at a McDonald’s to proceed with her Massachusetts slip and fall lawsuit. Mercilla Lindor was injured in 2007. In her Massachusetts injury lawsuit, she…
As our Boston injury lawyers have written in the past, Massachusetts slip and fall accidents can cause serious personal injuries for those involved. Hip fractures, back injuries, spinal injuries, and traumatic brain injuries, and even death can result. It is the responsibility of property owners to make sure that there…
According to data released at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting, nursing home patients who start taking a diuretic or that up their dose of this drug are at greater risk of becoming involved in a fall accident. Per the study, the chance of falling was upped…
Two days after 21-year-old Justin Amorratanasuchad fell four-stories to his death in a Boston fall accident from the top of a South End apartment building, the city is warning landlords to secure their buildings’ rooftops. The Emerson college student was working on a film project on the roof when he…
Our Boston injury lawyers recently posted a blog about how the winter months will surely put the new Massachusetts slip and fall standard to the test. Unlike the previous standard, which required that the victim prove that “unnatural” causes and the landowner’s negligence caused the slip and fall snow hazard,…
With weather conditions sure to deposit more snow in the region, property owners will have to work extra hard to make sure that Massachusetts slip and fall accidents do not happen on their premises. While preventing this type of premises liability accident is a challenge every winter, the Supreme Judicial…
A water main broke in Chelsea around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, and workers will have to replace 12 feet of pipe. A director of Chelsea’s public works department suggested that the pipe broke because it was old and not because of the cold weather. The weather did, however, create icing…
According to The Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s oldest newspaper, the parents of Robert M. Wells have filed a Boston wrongful death lawsuit against MIT and the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Wells, a 22-year-old MIT student, died in 2008 after falling five stories from the DU fraternity and sustaining skull fractures,…
According to a Burlington fire official, six people were injured yesterday afternoon when a deck collapsed at a local home. They had gathered at the residence following a funeral when the deck that they were standing on detached from the residence, falling eight feet. Four of the injured were taken…
A man fell down a staircase at Fenway Park during a game last week between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. As a result of the fall, the man suffered severe injuries to his head and neck. The fan fell approximately 14 feet down the…