Earlier this year, a Massachusetts federal court awarded $3 million to a child who suffered permanent neurological injuries after a nurse practitioner failed to properly diagnose and manage severe jaundice in the days following birth. The child was born small for...
If your family has ever moved a loved one into a Massachusetts assisted living facility and been charged an upfront “community fee” at move-in, a March 2026 ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court says that fee may have been illegal, and that the facility...
Every Memorial Day weekend the population of Cape Cod multiplies overnight. Main Street in Hyannis, Commercial Street in Provincetown, the villages of Chatham, Falmouth, and Sandwich fill up with visitors who are on vacation, often distracted, and frequently...
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of riding season in New England, and every year it arrives with a grim reminder: the stretch from May through August is when Massachusetts roads claim the most motorcycle lives. With the holiday three weeks away and...
On April 10, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a first-of-its-kind ruling: Meta Platforms, the owner of Instagram, cannot hide behind a federal law it has long used as a shield to escape accountability for designing a platform that allegedly exploits...
Two days ago, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued one of its most significant product liability decisions in years, unanimously affirming a $56 million judgment against Philip Morris USA in the wrongful death case of a Cape Ann woman who smoked the...
