This has been a glorious day for most people in the Boston area, with high temperatures drawing walkers, bikers, runners, and dog-walkers out into the sunshine. The day also held hopes of being a great one for motorcyclists to speed along in in one of the first warm breezes of…
A woman is blaming a drug shortage for the wrongful death of her husband. The plaintiff, Janet Schubert, is suing drug manufacturer Genzyme, its parent company Sanofi, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which holds the patents for the drug Fabrazyme. In her wrongful death complaint, Schubert says that…
According to news reports, a woman from Hopkinton, Massachusetts was seriously injured in a snowmobiling accident near Jackman, Maine on Thursday. Apparently, the 46-year-old woman was snowmobiling with a group of people, but then she was unable to make a right-hand turn, veered off the trail and crashed into the…
A construction worker who sustained serious back injuries has reached a $1.6 million Boston injury settlement with the defendants of his Massachusetts construction accident lawsuit. The plaintiff, Leo Camilli, was hurt while excavating broken chunks of sidewalk during a job for Cicconi and Sons Construction Company, Inc. Camilli contends that…
A $25 million settlement has been reached in the whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former nurse employee against Odyssey HealthCare Inc. Per her Qui Tam complaint, submitted in 2008, between 2006 and 2009 Odyssey enrolled and recertified patients who were non-terminal for hospice care, and billed for services that weren’t…
In recent years, student incited violence has made national headlines as injuries and deaths have resulted. From the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 to the suicide of Phoebe Prince, the South Hadley High School girl who was bullied online in 2010, the country has been a witness to how…
According to a recent study, poor people are less likely than people with more money to file a medical malpractice complaint. This finding contradicts the “unconscious bias” possessed by many doctors who wrongly think that low-income patients are more likely to sue. The researchers of the study say that this…
The Centers for Disease Control says that there is a chemical in certain paint removers used to stripping bathtubs that is being linked to 13 deaths. The fatalities occurred in 10 states in residential bathrooms that didn’t have enough ventilation. The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report said the chemical,…
Bobby Jenks, the Red Sox relief pitcher, claims that a Boston medical mistake during spinal surgery caused him to have to undergo an emergency procedure 18 days later. Now, Jenks may not be able to pitch this season. Jenks underwent spinal decompression surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital last December. The…
According to news reports, explosions were heard this morning before a two-alarm fire roared through a Winthrop home, damaging the house and injuring family members inside. Around 8:30am, neighbors called 911 and the Winthrop Fire Department responded to the scene. A father was home with his two adult stepdaughters at…