Every summer since the early 2000s, great white sharks have returned to the waters off the Outer Cape. They come for the grey seals, whose population has rebounded dramatically since the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ended the commercial hunting that had kept...
On the evening of June 23, a dark-colored SUV struck two pedestrians on Route 28 in West Yarmouth and drove away. One person was injured. Police were left with almost no leads. The driver has not been identified. That scenario, a hit-and-run on one of Cape Cod’s...
If you’ve been injured on a public beach, a town road, a municipal parking lot, a public school, or any other property owned or maintained by a Massachusetts city or town, you may have a valid legal claim. But the rules for pursuing that claim are different from...
If you’ve been injured on the job in Massachusetts, you probably already know you can file a workers’ compensation claim. What a lot of injured workers don’t realize is that workers’ comp and a personal injury lawsuit aren’t mutually...
That question is now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and the answer could significantly expand the legal options available to patients harmed by defective implanted devices in this state. The case is Plourde v. Sorin Group USA, Inc., and it involves a...
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...
