The parents of Anthony Barksdale II are suing the Boston University chapter of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity for Massachusetts wrongful death. Their son, a college freshman, died after getting drunk at a pledge party in 2013. He was looking to become a fraternity member. At the time of his…
Rosseau Management Inc. will pay $300,000 to resolve a Medicare billing fraud lawsuit accusing the assisted living facilities owner of letting subcontractor RehabCare Group East. Inc. turn in fraudulent Medicare claims. The latter provided rehabilitation therapy at three facilities. According to the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s Office in the…
Andrea Larkin has been awarded $35.4 million for Massachusetts medical malpractice. Larkin, who was not placed on a notification list for her brain abnormalities, which were identified during an MRI and CAT scan after she ran the Boston Marathon in 2004, suffered a serious stroke after delivering her newborn daughter…
An Amtrak employee is the first to sue the company for personal injury over the deadly train derailment accident that injured more than 200 people and killed eight others on Tuesday in Philadelphia. The plaintiffs are employee Bruce Phillips and his wife Kalita Phillips. At the time of the train…
Britteney Miles is suing for Massachusetts personal injury. Miles was pregnant in 2012 when a former police officer accidentally shot her in the face. She is seeking $1.5 million. Police arrived at her apartment to answer a 911 call over a possible break in. When Miles, 21, who was holding…
The daughters of a man who sustained injuries in a Danvers, MA slip and fall accident in a Target parking lot will be getting $400,000 in personal injury compensation. Emanuel Papadopoulos was walking back to his car in 2002 when he fell on a patch of dirty ice in…
A jury awarded $1.5 million to the family of a patient who died as the result of an injury she sustained after being dropped headfirst by an ambulance crew. Barbara J. Grimes, 67, of Pembroke, Mass., was receiving dialysis treatment at Fresenius Medical Care in Plymouth on January 31, 2009.…
Trek Bicycle has recalled nearly one million bikes following several accidents in 2014 that left two riders injured (one with facial injuries and one with a fractured wrist) and one in quadriplegia. Trek settled the lawsuit from the serious accident, but has continues to decline providing details. TREK RECALL Trek…
An Ashfield, MA nursing assistant has been charged with assault and battery on a person over 60 or disabled. Garrett C. Crehan, 42, allegedly forced a 61-year-old patient at the Veterans Affairs Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System psychiatric ward in Leeds onto the ground, causing his nose to bleed. He…
The family of Odin Lloyd has re-filed her Massachusetts wrongful death case against former New England Patriot and now convicted murder Aaron Hernandez. A Fall River jury convicted the ex-pro tight end, 25, of Lloyd’s murder earlier this month. Hernandez is serving a lifetime prison term without parole. At the…