According to a whistleblower lawsuit, Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings committed Medicaid fraud by billing the program in Virginia a higher rate than other customers. Quest is the largest operator of medical labs in the United States. Hunter Laboratories LLC and its CEO Chris Riedel submitted the…
A multi-party lawsuit against the New England Compounding Center for the drug injuries and deaths of people who received contaminated steroid injections is proceeding. Named among them are NECC owners Greg Conigliaro, Lisa Cadden, and Barry Cadden. Products liability lawyers are attempting to add more defendants, including the maintenance company…
More than 2 million dehumidifiers have been recalled throughout the United States and Canada after reports have surfaced of fires and property damage caused by certain models produced by Gree Electric Appliances. According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, 12 brands of humidifiers, all manufactured by Gree Electric…
The parents of David Plamondon have settled their wrongful death lawsuit with the University of Connecticut for $5.5 million. Linda and George Plamondon, who are from Westminster, Massachusetts, sued the school shortly after their 20-year-old son was struck by a campus shuttle bus while in a campus crosswalk in 2011.…
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…