According to newly unsealed court documents, the parents of Phoebe Prince have settled their Massachusetts civil complaint with the South Hadley Public School District for $225,000. The case was resolved more than a year ago, but the financial figure reached was just revealed after a journalist went through the courts…
Senator John Kerry wants the families of Brian Halloran and Michael Donahue to receive the $8.5 million in Massachusetts wrongful death damages that a US district judge had awarded them in 2009. Donahue and Halloran were both victims of James “Whitey” Bulger, the infamous Boston mafia head of the Winter…
In Sisson et al. v Lhowe et al., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a plaintiff can modifiya medical malpractice lawsuit to seek damages for wrongful death rather than personal injury even though the expiration date to make the claim has already passed. However, this change can only…
The family of 58-year-old delivery man who was murdered in 2010 is trying to hold Domino’s Pizza and Deutsche Bank liable for his Boston wrongful death. Nova was dispatched by a franchisee of Domino’s to a broken down residential structure on September 1, 2010. Deutsche Bank owns that property. Nova,…
A jury has awarded the family of Robin Aleo $20.6M in its Essex County, Massachusetts wrongful death verdict against Toys “R” Us. Aleo died after she hit her head on the end of a swimming pool. The injury accident occurred in 2006 when the Banzai Falls in-ground slide she was…
The family of Edward P. Harrigan is suing Tobey Hospital and nurse Susan Spaulding for Wareham, Massachusetts medical malpractice and wrongful death. The civil complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Boston. The 87-year-old man was treated at the Wareham hospital in 2008. According to the federal lawsuit, even…
10 years after terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes on September 11, 2011, the family of Mark Bavis has settled their wrongful death lawsuit. Bavis, 31, died when United Airlines Flight 175 hit the World Trade Center. The wrongful death complaint, filed by Bavis’s Boston family, was the only lawsuit over…
The family of Catherine “Kate” Gill is trying to determine whether they have grounds for a Massachusetts wrongful death claim against the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office. Gill died after choking on a marshmallow on September 4, 2010. Her fiance, Brett McFarland, says he woke up in the middle of the…
A jury has awarded the South Hamilton family of Katherine Bellerose $7 million in Boston wrongful death damages. Bellerose, a newborn twin, passed away 8 days after being born two months premature at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her parents, John and Danielle, claimed she died because of inadequate staffing…
Our Boston Injury Lawyer Blog occasionally covers accidents and lawsuits that occurred outside the state of Massachusetts. In this post, we bring the latest on a tragic accident that made national headlines two years ago: Daniel Schuler, the husband of Diane Schuler, is suing the state of New York and…