Tragedy struck the sports world yet again this weekend, as another fan fell to his death while leaving a football stadium in California. The man, whose name has not yet been released, fell on Sunday afternoon from the elevated Jamestown walkway that travels around Candlestick Park, where the San Francisco…
An Ayer, MA woman agreed to a $9.5M settlement in a medical malpractice lawsuit against doctors at Emerson Hospital in Concord, after she contracted a flesh-eating infection and had all her limbs amputated six years ago. Monica Sprague Jorge, 41, contracted the rare and often fatal flesh-eating bacteria after giving…
Officials at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, believe as many as eight patients may have been exposed to a life-threatening, dementia-causing disease as a result of unsterilized tools used in their neurosurgery unit. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, a neurosurgical patient treated at the…
According to Massachusetts health officials, hundreds of residents may have been exposed to measles while visiting Massachusetts General Hospital, which is located in Boston, and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham. The exposures would have taken place at the Boston hospital between 8/17 and 8/23 at the medical walk-in clinic, the…
A Hingham teenager suffered serious injuries after he was struck by a boat while tubing near the Hingham Yacht Club over Labor Day weekend. According to investigators, the victim and two other teenagers, all 13-years-old, had been tubing in a designated tubing and waterskiing area between World’s End and the…
Our Boston injury lawyers represent students that have been the victim of violent crimes at schools, campuses, and related facilities throughout the state. Unfortunately, physical assault, shootings, and sexual assault can happen at institutions of learning. Lone gunmen have even been known to choose schools populated by some of our…
Shands Hospitals will pay $26 million to settle a Medicaid/Medicare fraud case accusing it of admitting patients that didn’t require hospitalization to six of its facilities. A whistleblower claim submitted in 2008 claimed that the company overbilled Medicaid and Medicare with the admissions. The Medicare/Medicaid fraud lawsuit accuses Shands of…
Families for Better Care has issued the first state-by-state nursing home report card of its kind. The non-profit resident advocacy group graded and ranked states according to several federal quality measures. Massachusetts received a “B” rating and was ranked 19 among the states. Massachusetts related-findings by the group: • Close…
The woman whose husband suffered a fatal cardiac arrest in the stands during a New England Patriots game is suing the football team, the National Football League, and others for her husband’s Massachusetts wrongful death. Kimberly Chartier claims that her husband, Jeff, went into cardiac distress after an altercation with…
A Massachusetts man and his young niece were hurt Sunday afternoon when a jet ski they were riding on in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, blew apart. According to Marine Patrol, who responded to the incident, the man broke his pelvis and the child, 8, suffered a laceration to her head.…