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.…
World Against Toys Causing Harm Inc., a Boston nonprofit, has identified the 10 toys it the marketplace that it considers to be the worst in terms of hazards they pose to kids. The list is out just in time for the holiday shopping season. Our Boston personal injury law firm…
Yesterday evening, a man was hit by an MBTA commuter rail train in Lynn, the Boston Globe reported. It is alleged that the man was on the tracks when the Newburyport/Rockport line train hit him. He was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by Medflight, and his condition is…
A young girl stopped breathing while inside a water toy attraction at the Pump ‘n’ Jump store at Independence Mall in Kingston. The store allowed children to climb into and walk or float in an inflatable 6-foot ball. It is a popular toy, and the Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis…
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…
One man died and one was rescued after a lobster boat capsized on Sunday. The rescued man was found on Little Brewster Island, a Boston Harbor island, and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. The other man was found unresponsive in the water and was taken to the Coast Guard…
Early Sunday morning, the second armed robbery in three days near Harvard campus occurred. Kai Robert Kruger, a 21-year-old Cambridge man, shot at a police officer after robbing three Harvard freshmen. Before the police arrived, Kruger stole the students’ credit cards, wallets and cell phones. Police spotted a man acting…
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…
A Framingham District Court judge won’t let Ruby McDonough testify about allegations she made claiming that she was the victim of Subdury nursing home sexual assault. The 63-year-old woman claims that her former nursing aide, Kofi Agana, assaulted her last year at the Sudbury Pines Extended Care assisted living facility.…
There was a fire in the Downtown Crossing MBTA station Saturday night that caused evacuations. It started around the wheel and firefighters extinguished it and cleared the scene. There are no reported injuries as of yet. Many times when there are fires, injuries can be less apparent. For example, smoke…