New Hampshire and Massachusetts Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

For the past 35 years, our firm has handled numerous dog bites and attacks, some involving very serious and permanent injuries. Meanwhile, insurance companies have been loathing claims involving dogs because dog bite claims account for nearly one third of all homeowner insurance claims. Some breeds, such as the pit bull started to get a…

Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month which runs each May did not get off to a good start in 2013. In New Hampshire alone in the first week of May there has been one motorcycle related death and two serious motorcycle related injuries. Last Friday in Rochester, New Hampshire, 52 year old Russell Brown was driving his…

With the warmer weather, more and more people are getting outside and on the roads with their bicycles and motorcycles. May is National Bike Month sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists and is also Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month sponsored by the NHTSA. Typically when one thinks of bicycle and motorcycle safety, one often thinks of avoiding collisions…

According to the CDC, over 50,000 people die from traumatic brain injuries each year in the United States. Some traumatic brain injuries are considered “mild” and others are considered “severe.” Symptoms may or not be present immediately after the injury and often the injured victim is not in the right mind frame to make the…

Highway speeds have been in great debate in New Hampshire over the last few months. A bill was introduced and passed in the House which would raise the speed limit on I-93 from Exit 18 to the Vermont Border to 70mph instead of 65mph. It would remain the same through Franconia Notch however. The House…

On Thursday night, a 14 year old teenage boy was sent to the hospital in critical condition after being severely attacked by two rottweilers who were guarding a premises in Revere, Massachusetts behind the Northgate Shopping Plaza around 5:45pm. It appeared that he had hopped over a barbed wire fence surrounding the property just prior…

Every year approximately 20,000 children under the age of 5 are injured from shopping carts and require emergency medical care. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 74% of injuries from shopping carts which occurred to children under the age of 15 involved a head or neck injury. Of children under the age of five,…

WMUR posted an article yesterday about snow plow drivers and fatigue. It has been reported on the news that many snow plow drivers have been working nearly around the clock for days trying to clear our roadways and sidewalks from the nearly two feet of snow that fell in the blizzard over the weekend. Snow…

After this weekend’s Blizzard of 2013, or Nor’easter Nemo, most of New England sustained snow fall accumulations in excess of 2 feet. Coastal flooding affected towns on the seacoast especially on the Massachusetts coast and the Cape. Monday’s additional precipitation only added insult to injury, making the snow that many were still trying to remove…

This discussion is part four in a series that I am nicknaming “Monday are Gundays”. Over the next several Mondays, I will continue this discussion. We will discuss negligent discharge, firearm-related injuries and fatalities, firearms and children, and the laws regarding guns, especially in cases of negligent discharge, in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. We…