According to the Emergency Care Research Institute, out of the 50 million medical operations that take place in the US, about 600 of them result in accidental surgical fires. The outcome can be catastrophic for the patient, who may sustain serious burn injuries. According to the Bostonchannel.com, one woman sustained…
An outside inspection of the Boston Fire Department’s 44 fire trucks found that the department practices shoddy fleet maintenance across the board. Some of the deficiencies noted by the report: • Not enough driver training. • Vehicle abuse or misuse. • Weak vehicle specification when determining how to handle and…
The families of Brian and Beverly Mauck have notified the state of Massachusetts that it is going to be one of the defendants that will be sued for the couple’s wrongful deaths. The Maucks were shot to death on November 17, 2007 by convicted murderer Daniel J. Tavares, Jr. Tavares,…
The US Supreme Court has upheld a $6.7 million civil awarded to a woman whose arm had to be amputated after receiving a botched injection of Phenergan, an anti-nausea medication. The woman, Diana Levine, was injured in April 2000 when she went to a local clinic for treatment of a…
In Massachusetts, a man who used to work at the Sudbury Pines Extended Care nursing home has been charged with sexually molesting a 62-year-old stroke patient while another resident was sleeping in the room. Following the alleged incident, the former nursing home worker, Kofi Agana, was fired from his job.…
One year after the US Supreme Court ruled that medical device makers cannot be sued for personal injury, products liability, or wrongful death if the Food and Drug Administration had previously approved the device, US lawmakers are taking steps to give back to defective medical device victims and their families…
In Boston, an 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead today at Massachusetts General Hospital after falling on an escalator at the MBTA’s State Street Station. Her clothing reportedly got caught in the escalator. According to Boston EMS spokesperson Jennifer Mehigan, a “cardiac incident” and the “escalator accident” were both factors in…
In Massachusetts, a former Breed Middle School student is suing the city of Lynn for personal injury. Ralph Ozual’s slip and fall lawsuit, filed in Salem Superior Court, is seeking $100,000 in damages. Ozual’s complaint contends that on January 14, 2002, he sustained serious personal injuries when he slipped an…
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration are trying to determine the cause of last Thursday’s deadly plane crash that killed all 49 people onboard the plane and another victim on the ground. Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed into a Buffalo, New York home before…
In the US District Court in Worcester, a state trooper is suing Taser International, the makers of the Taser stun gun, for $1 million. James Foley, a Grafton resident, says that when the weapon was used on him during a law enforcement seminar on Tasers, the electric currents that went…