According to a study published this week by the Boston University School of Medicine, researchers have discovered more evidence affirming a causal connection between repeated head injuries and chronic brain disease. The findings can be found in the journal Brain and will likely provide support for brain injury lawsuits filed…
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…
According to a new study published in the journal Neurology, National Football League players have a three times greater risk of suffering a fatal brain disease, such as Alzheimer’s, than members of the general population. The report was published on the same day that the NFL notified the public that…
According to the lawyer of a Pittsfield man charged with motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of drugs, driving to endanger causing serious bodily injury, and driving under the influence of alcohol, the deadly Massachusetts car accident that claimed the life of 25-year-old Michael F. Ashline may have actually…
A Massachusetts native died at about 6:30pm Friday in a skydiving accident in Florida. According to news reports, Jason Eisenzopf was a 30-year-old native of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He worked in Maine as a skydiving instructor at Skydive New England in England, but had been in Florida for his second winter…
A Cambridge, Massachusetts resident was killed in a snowboarding accident on Saturday when he hit his head on the ground, swerved off the trial, and crashed into a tree. He appears to have been wearing a helmet at the time. Unfortunately, according to news reports, 29-year-old Sylvan Walton suffered severe…
In March, our Boston injury lawyers published a blog post on the tragic Worcester County escalator accident at the Auburn Mall that claimed the life of 4-year-old Mark DiBona. Now, his family has filed an Auburn, Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit against Sears Roebuck and Co., the Simon Property Group, the…
Brain injuries affected over a million people in the US every year. March is Brain Injury Awareness month, and our Boston injury lawyers want to remind you that if someone you love has sustained a brain injury because of an accident that was caused by another party’s negligent actions, you…
A new state law has just gone into effect that prohibits kids under age 14 from operating ATVs. Our Boston ATV accident lawyers hope that this will decrease the number of injuries and deaths involving all-terrain vehicles. According to a new study, the number of spinal cord injuries and brain…
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,…