Jackie Monahan, a Haverhill, Massachusetts, woman has won $8.5 million in the wrongful death lawsuit against Alexis Ortiz, the 22-year-old driver who was speeding when he killed her husband Larry, 54, who had been riding his motorcycle outside their residence on March 18, 2006. At his Massachusetts Parole Board meeting…
Medical regulators in Massachusetts suspended the medical license of Dr. Suzanne B. Rothchild, a Winchester Hospital obstetrician. The Board of Registration in Medicine called Rothchild “an immediate and serious threat to public health.” Since the board’s decision, Winchester Hospital has suspended Rothchild’s medical privileges. The hospital has disciplined her for…
A woman who has been charged in the motor vehicle homicide death of a female pedestrian she accidentally struck outside a car wash in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is now the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by Roger Young, the husband of Robin Young, who was killed…
A Connecticut woman is considering filing a personal injury lawsuit for the chemical burn injuries she says that her children sustained while swimming at CoCo Key Water Resort, a Danvers, Massachusetts water park. Kristen Baker says that her daughter Emily, 9, and son Austin, 11, experienced blisters, rashes, skin burns,…
A recent string of school bus accidents across the United States have caused parents to question the safety of the transportation vehicle normally considered the safest type of transportation for school kids. Just this week, three people were injured, including one student on Friday near Zoarville, Ohio, when a school…
The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a wrongful death verdict awarding $3.1 to the family of Quincy fisherman John McIntyre for his murder. McIntyre was allegedly murdered by FBI Informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi. The government says the FBI is not…
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case that could determine whether drug makers should receive a similar protection from lawsuits to the one the court granted to medical device makers last week. The main issue, according to Justice Stephen Breyer, is whether a drug, “on…
Piety Corner Nursing Home, a Waltham, Massachusetts nursing home, has been placed on a federal government list of facilities that have serious issues with patient care. The 34-bed facility must now undergo government reviews more often. In 2006, Piety Corner was cited for over two dozen violations-eight of which were…
A federal judge is allowing a $105 million wrongful death lawsuit against Dateline NBC: “To Catch a Predator” to proceed. The lawsuit, brought by Patricia Conradt, alleges that her brother, Dallas prosecutor Louis William Conradt Jr. committed suicide because a sting operation accused him of having an online sexual conversation…
In Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts, the civil trial between a Boston couple and J.S. Waterman and Sons funeral home began on Thursday. Robert and Therese Bellisimo Benedict are suing the Boston funeral home for losing their stillborn son’s remains and possibly cremating him with the body of an…