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• Elder Abuse Rises in Massachusetts

  Carrie Strasser | February 13, 2009 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Boston Globe reported on Monday that economic stress is causing more family caregivers to abuse and/or neglect elderly relatives. This is not only due to economic pressures on the individual...

• Facing tough economic times, NH reconsiders seat belt law

  Carrie Strasser | February 06, 2009 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  New Hampshire is the only state in the country that does not have a seat belt law, says the Eagle-Tribune in an article on Thursday. On Tuesday, the House Transportation Committee considered a...

• Cape Cod Winter Driving: Be Protected and Know Your UM Coverage

  Bruce Bierhans | January 21, 2009 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  You're on your way to the Cape Cod Mall. You're stopped at a red light and are rear ended by a bubble gum chewing 19 year old talking on her cell phone and putting on mascara looking in her rear...

• Study Shows Risk of Death Almost Double with Certain Drug Treatments of Alzheimer's Patients

  Carrie Strasser | January 10, 2009 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The New York Times reported on Thursday, that a recent study shows that certain anti-psychotic drugs used to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease may drastically increase their risk of death. The...

• Nursing Home Ratings

  Bruce Bierhans | January 04, 2009 12:40 PM | 1 CommentCape Cod, MA

  Believe me...when I wrote my last post on Nursing Homes in my Cape Cod Barrister blog on CapeCod Today, I had no idea that nursing home grading would be the headline story in the Cape Cod Times just...

• Gov. Patrick Bashes the Consumer Again

  Bruce Bierhans | December 06, 2008 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Overlooked to a large degree during his campaign for Massachusetts Governor, was Deval Patricks role on the Board of Directors of Ameriquest at the same time it was creating and marketing the...

• Nursing Home Neglect

  Bruce Bierhans | December 04, 2008 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  We are seeing an increase in calls from individuals complaining about the care and treatment received by family members in nursing homes. We are hearing horror stories about bedsores, falls, broken...

• Physician Apologies

  Bruce Bierhans | November 30, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Cape Cod Times recently published an editorial supporting an evidentiary change making physician aplogies inadmissable at trial. The following is a copy of my letter to the Editor, published a...

• Man Injured by Falling Granite in Hyannis

  Bruce Bierhans | November 11, 2008 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Cape Cod times reported today that a man was injured by falling granite at a granite store in Hyannis. The man, believed to be a customer rather than an employee, sustained a crushing injury to...

• The Foreclosure morass

  Bruce Bierhans | November 10, 2008 11:39 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  I congratulate the Cape Cod Times for its' recent editorial favoring increased authority for Bankruptcy judges to modify sub-prime mortgage loans in bankruptcy court. However, this measure does not...