Monthly Archives: March 2010

March 9, 2010

Massachusetts Tort Roundup

There are two Massachusetts personal injury cases to report on this week. One case, Soderberg v. Concorde Greene Condominium Association, modifies Massachusetts law in slip-and-fall cases, making the law less hostile to plaintiffs. The other case, Lev v. Beverly Enterprises-Massachusetts, Inc., has yet to be decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, but may allow [...]

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Posted in Liquor Liability, Premises Liability, Slip and Fall
March 7, 2010

Eye-Opening Boston Herald Investigative Expose On Massachusetts Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Today’s Boston Herald features a great set of investigative articles by reporter Jessica Fargen that detail the problem of nursing home abuse and neglect in Massachusetts. In recent inspections, nearly forty percent of Massachusetts nursing homes were judged substandard under federal regulations. With 45,000 Massachusetts seniors living in nursing homes and that number growing, the [...]

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Posted in Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
March 6, 2010

Just Be Glad You Live In Massachusetts

OK, so unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard countless stories about the massive global Toyota recall for problems with sudden uncontrolled acceleration. Millions of cars have been recalled in the US and Europe. Now guess how many Toyota cars have been recalled in the company’s home country of Japan. Just try and [...]

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Posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Product Recall, Tort Reformers
March 3, 2010

Massachusetts Senate Approves Texting Ban, Restrictions On Elderly Drivers

The passage yesterday in the Senate of a bill banning text messaging while driving and imposing visual and other medical tests on drivers over 75 years old is good news inasmuch as it presages a ban on hand-held texts, but the potential ban on hands-free devices and the medical review of seniors raise a lot [...]

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Posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Motorcycle Accidents, Truck Accidents
March 2, 2010

The FDA Has No Regulations About Acceptable Bacterial Levels In Bagged Salads: Sign Petition To Get Them

Umm, is it 1906 again? Do we need another Pure Food and Drug Act? Last month, Consumer Reports ran an article entitled Bagged Salad: How Clean?, revealing that some bagged salads contain disturbingly high levels of bacteria and highlighting that there are no FDA regulations about acceptable bacterial levels in leafy greens. Now the FDA [...]

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Posted in Contaminated Food, Food poisoning, Foodborne Illness, Listeria, Products Liability, Salmonella Outbreak, Tainted Food Products