The widow of Marquis Barker has filed a $4 million Boston wrongful death lawsuit against the city over his fatal shooting by police officers. In her civil complaint, Kim Sanders Barker contends that cops should have called in a mental-health professional rather than using a gun to apprehend her husband.…
Three years after Brian and Beverly Mauck were murdered, their families and the couple’s respective estates are suing 15 employees or supervisors of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, the Masachusetts Commonwealth Fusion Center, and Worcester County District Attorney’s Office for their wrongful deaths. The Maucks were fatally shot in their…
The family of Marie Evans is suing is Lorillard Tobacco Co. for her Massachusetts wrongful death. Evans died of lung cancer in 2002. She was 54 and had been smoking for more than 40 years. The Boston wrongful death trial opened in Suffolk Superior Court today. The family blames the…
Nearly two years after Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelly died from injuries he sustained when Boston Fire Department Ladder 26 sped down Parker Hill Avenue in Mission Hill before crashed through a brick wall and into a building, his family is suing six companies for Suffolk County wrongful death. The defendants…
In Boston, jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit over a catastrophic 2007 Brockton bus crash that claimed the life of a disabled pedestrian. The defendants are bus driver Tracy A. Lopes and bus company First Student Inc. Lopes, a Raynham resident, had been…
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,…
A 25-year-old man was killed in a bar fight early in the morning on August 14th across the street from Fenway Park. The altercation occurred on Lansdowne Street at approximately 12:10 a.m. The suspect whose actions played a role in the death of the young man has been identified as…
An emergency room doctor was killed this past Friday when the motor scooter he was operating collided with a truck. The accident occurred at approximately 10 a.m. on Beacon Street in Brighton. The doctor was an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and…
The Massachusetts wrongful death trial against a Lawrence cop and two State Police troopers over Alfonso Santana’s 2005 unexpected passing is scheduled to begin today. At issue, reports The Boston Globe, is whether Santana, 39, died from a police choke hold, cocaine intoxication, or another cause. Santana was apprehended on…
The widow of Robert J. Martin Sr. a 73-year-old Truro selectman intends to sue the town of Provincetown and the Old Colony Tap bar for his Massachusetts drowning death. Martin’s body was found close to Fisherman’s Wharf on the evening of September 28, 2008. While the amounts that she plans…