The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently decided the case of O’Brien v. Leahy Landscaping. In that case, the plaintiff, O’Brien, sustained a fractured wrist after slipping and falling due to snow and ice that had remained on the Defendant’s premises for five days following a snow storm. As you may know from reading this blog, the only way […]

The following is provided courtesy of Massachusetts Law Updates: In the case of Haglund v. Phillip Morris, the Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled that the fact that a smoker knew that cigarettes were dangerous but smoked anyway does not constitute an “unreasonable” use of the product under Correia v. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., 388 Mass. 342 […]

This is a rather unusual case. A Texas woman died after she allegedly developed a staff infection following a pedicure she received at a salon. The woman died of a heart attack which her estate claims was caused by the staff infection. The estate in suing the salon for wrongful death. This is a case which highlights the […]

I found this over at injuryboard.com which highlights a unique case of medical malpractice, and the problems faced when a doctor does not have medical malpractice insurance: A Hawaii jury has awarded damages of nearly $5.6 million in a lawsuit against a surgeon who placed a piece of a screwdriver in the patient’s back. Two […]

Many people think medical malpractice liability only applies to doctors. Actually, medical malpractice liability applies to EMT’s, to doctors, and nearly everyone in between in the medical field. Here is an ignominious example of possible medical malpractice committed by a nurse, as provided by the Associated Press: U.S. hospital: Unsterilized instruments may have exposed patients to […]

Here is a rather interesting post from The Total Injury Blog about a recent case out of Illinois where a woman sustained personal injuries due to alleged bed bug bites: “A Chicago couple has filed a $20 million law suit against a Catskills resort where the woman sustained nearly 500 bed bug bites. Although bed […]

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer yesterday reported on a Columbus, Ohio woman who received a jury verdict against a department store stemming from an unlawful arrest. The woman, Patricia Gail Jackson, on May 21, 2003 purchased a pair of shorts at the store. After leaving the store and while approaching her car, two plain-clothes security officers employed […]

A Mississippi diocese by way of settlement has agreed to pay 19 victims 5.1 million who claimed to have been sexually molested by priests in the diocese. Some of the claims that were settled dated back to allegations of molestation from the 1960’s. Please click here for the full article.