New Hampshire and Massachusetts Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

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…

With the impending Nor’easter storm Nemo set to strike tomorrow into Saturday, it is imperative that everyone is well prepared, including landlords and property owners. In Massachusetts, a game changing Supreme Court decision has forever altered the way that snow and ice slip and fall cases are handled in Massachusetts. In 2010 the middle of…

This discussion is part three 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…

Personal Injury Protection benefits, also known as PIP, is included as part of any Massachusetts auto insurance policy but what exactly is it and how does it work? This article will help de-mystify some of the workings of PIP and help you understand how it works and how you can claim your PIP benefits. Massachusetts…

This discussion is part two 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…

In many states, pit bulls have been deemed “inherently dangerous” and breed specific legislation has been put into place in response to this categorization. At the end of October 2012, Massachusetts legislature enacted An Act Further Regulating Animal Control which ended breed-specific legislation in Massachusetts and overturned many of the local ordinances and laws regarding bit pulls…