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…
The Massachusetts family of a 38-year-old Jamaica Plane woman who died when the Big Dig Tunnel ceiling collapsed last year may be close to reaching a settlement agreement with Powers Fasteners, the company that provided the ceiling bolt epoxy that is believed to be responsible for the collapse. Powers Fasteners…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling earlier this week that says a doctor can be sued for personal injury if his patient caused a deadly car accident. The case before the SJC involved a mother who wants to sue a doctor because he allegedly did not warn his…
Sagamore residents Kelly Downing and Jayne Hill died on November 29 after their motor vehicle was hit by a Ford Taurus driven by 61-year-old Carol Ducey in Wareham, Massachusetts. Police think that the fact that Ducey, a Wareham resident, may have had a seizure or stroke while driving, which is…
In Boston, US District Judge Reginald C. Lindsay issued a ruling yesterday that held the FBI responsible for the 1982 execution-style killings of two men who were allegedly murdered by the Winter Hill gang. The judge called on prosecutors to negotiate wrongful death settlements with the families of the two…
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention issued its report on Friday on accidental injury deaths in the United States. Of all 50 states, Massachusetts has the lowest rate of accidental fatalities, which are the number one cause of death among people under 45 years of age. According to the…
Kathleen Vasa, the Massachusetts widow of the doctor who died when his 76-year-old cancer patient crashed her motor vehicle into the hospital’s radiation therapy unit where he worked, is suing the driver, Jane Berghold, for wrongful death. Berghold, who crashed her car into the hospital on October 15, claims that…
A Massachusetts doctor and a hospital secretary are dead following Monday’s tragic car accident involving a cancer patient who accidentaly drove her Oldsmobile into Brockton Hospital’s radiation center. 76-year-old Rockland resident Jane Berghold crashed her car through a glass door and into the center. She is a breast cancer patient…
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,…
Settlement negotiations between the parties held liable for last year’s collapse of the Big Dig tunnel’s ceiling in Boston and the family of the woman who died in the collapse have faltered. The two sides are reportedly millions of dollars apart, which increases the chances of the wrongful death lawsuit…