The Daily News Tribune has published a useful guide for parents seeking to properly insure their young drivers. As our Boston Car Accident Lawyer Blog reported earlier this spring, summer is a dangerous time for Massachusetts car accidents involving teenagers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that traffic accidents…
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is seeking to institute new rules aimed at protecting consumers from the perils of buying auto insurance. We all expect our insurance to be there in the event that we are involved in a serious or fatal Massachusetts car accident. Unfortunately, auto insurance companies frequently…
Authorities were on the water in force over the Memorial Day weekend, a trend law enforcement promises will continue through the summer months as safety advocates vow to reduce the dangers of serious and fatal Massachusetts boating accidents. As we reported recently on our Boston Personal Injury Attorney Blog, a…
Two Boston police officers were injured in Massachusetts motorcycle accidents, which occurred within blocks of each other in Roxbury, the Boston Globe reported. One of the officers was off-duty and riding his personal motorcycle when he was involved in an accident at Warren Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The…
This week is National Boating Safety week and an unusually high number of serious and fatal Massachusetts boating accidents have safety advocates preaching caution as the boating season begins in earnest with the Memorial Day weekend. The Daily Item reports the area has already seen a record number of boating…
Memorial Day weekend and the end of the school year is an excellent time to talk to your children about swimming pool and water safety. Massachusetts drowning accidents occur almost exclusively between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Tragically, most Massachusetts swimming pool accidents involve small children. Whether an accident occurs…
Two Massachusetts women are being remembered by friends and family after a fatal boating accident in Narragansett Bay, South Coast Today reported. The women, both 23, were residents of Dighton and Assonet. They were killed last weekend when their boat crashed into Despair Island off the coast of Rhode Island.…
A Danvers man was hospitalized for injuries sustained in a Massachusetts work accident after being sucked into a sausage machine at the DiLuigi Sausage Company, the Salem News reported. The man was working as part of a cleaning crew when he was partially sucked into a seasoning machine as he…
In one Massachusetts case, an employer called in 17 union workers and told them they had too many work injuries — one more and they would be fired. The union called the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which called the employer about the illegal action. In another case tracked by…
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled the owner of a Massachusetts nursing home cannot face criminal charges for the death or a nursing home resident who fell down a set of steps in a wheelchair, the Boston Herald reported. Falls are one of the leading causes of deaths in nursing homes,…