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 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...
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...
If you have a parent or loved one living in a Massachusetts assisted living residence, or if you’re in the process of choosing one, new proposed regulations from Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office are worth understanding. They represent the first...
