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...
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...
