Wrongful Death

• 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...

• Nursing Homes and Caregivers

  Bruce Bierhans | January 06, 2008 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A client comes into the office and says, "my 85 year old mother just died in the nursing home after falling out of her wheelchair 7 times."We hear this horrible story, and others like it, all the time. Residents die from infected bedsores. Residents that are clearly patients "at risk for falls" never have fall risk assesments and die after repeated falls. After falls, broken bones are neglected....

• Turnpike wants Documents Sealed in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | March 25, 2007 3:20 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, citing concern for the public's safety, has asked a state judge to seal documents in the wrongful death suit filed by the family of a Jamaica Plain woman that was killed in July when the Interstate 90 connector tunnel ceiling collapsed.Lawyers for the Turnpike Authority argue the Homeland Security Act allows the agency to withhold certain formation that...

• Wife Ordered to Pay $3.75 Million over Husband's Death

  Christina Cole | February 04, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A woman that killed her cheating husband by running him down with her car in a jealous rage was ordered to pay $3.75 million to her in-laws on Friday.A jury awarded the sum in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Clara Harris.Harris repeatedly ran over her orthodontist husband with her car in 2002 in the parking lot of a hotel after finding him there with his receptionist/mistress. Harris was...

• Woman Files Wrongful Death Suit Against JetBlue Airways

  Christina Cole | January 01, 2007 1:59 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against JetBlue Airways Corp., claiming the air carrier ignored her husband as he suffered a fatal heart attack during a flight two years ago.On February 16, 2005, Robert Fossett Jr., was a passenger on the Boston-bound JetBlue Flight, when another passenger witnessed him go into "cardiac distress" and tried to alert the flight crew, according to court...