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• Public Employees and Accountability

  Bruce Bierhans | August 23, 2008 10:16 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Our office recently took on the representation of a Harwich High School student that sustained serious injuries during an unchaperoned event that took place on high school property. A claim has been...

• Law and the Theater/"Gloves Off "in Truro

  Bruce Bierhans | August 02, 2008 8:29 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  I firmly believe that good trial lawyers must have a "release" of sorts to cope with the stress of the job. My three are the ocean, exercise and the theater. After a brief career as an actor in the...

• The Financial Scams and Indictments Keep Coming!

  Bruce Bierhans | June 27, 2008 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  See the piece on my Stoughton/Canton blog about our firms' work in this area.

• Left Hand Turns

  Bruce Bierhans | June 23, 2008 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  AHHH...Cape Cod in the summer. Beaches, fried seafood, sun and surf ...and NO left hand turns! I was at a cocktail party over the weekend for a local charity in which I'm involved. One of the...

• Just When You Think Your Child is Safe...

  Bruce Bierhans | June 18, 2008 3:50 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  As a parent, wouldn't you think your child was safe if he or she attended an overnight graduation related event on school grounds? Of course, you would have every right to believe that such an event...

• Car Accidents and Solicitation

  Bruce Bierhans | May 07, 2008 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  You would think the summer was already here. Every day, The Log in the Cape Cod Times lists three or four serious local car accidents involving everything from drunk drivers and cars crashing into...

• Tanker Explosion Badly Burns Trucker

  Jenny Albano | March 28, 2008 11:35 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  On Friday, March 28, a tanker exploded and shut down Interstate 91 in Chicopee. The driver of the tanker became badly burned after being trapped inside the truck during and after the explosion. Over a dozen drivers stopped their vehicles to try and free the man from the wreckage but were stopped by the flames.The driver was finally rescued and taken to a local hospital. The driver suffered...

• Yet Another ATV Accident

  Bruce Bierhans | March 24, 2008 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  On Saturday night, a twelve year old boy sustained serious injuries in an accident involving an ATVin Harwich.For years, consumer groups have sought further regulation of these vehicles because of their weight, design flaws...and their propensity to cause serious injuries, including head injuries, in adolescent males. In the Harwich case, the Cape Cod Times reported that several witnesses fled...

• Fatal Train Crash Caused by Human Error

  Jenny Albano | March 19, 2008 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A crash that occurred last year was found to be caused by human error and failure to follow safety procedures by the National Transportation Safety Board. The collision of a commuter train and a maintenance truck took the lives of two track workers in Woburn.The crash occurred on Jan. 9, 2007, when the engineer of southbound Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Train 322 received a clear signal...

• Are you an injured "Faker"

  Bruce Bierhans | March 05, 2008 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Please see the blog on our Southeastern Massachusetts site about the new "Fake Bad Scale" now being used by insurance companies to defeat or diminish injured victims claims.