After suffering harm because of another's negligence, you have injuries to investigate. You feel twinges of pain in your back. Did you suffer a spinal cord injury? Mayo Clinic explains how medical professionals diagnose spinal cord harm. Ensure you know the extent of...
Why are broken ribs so dangerous?
You risk cracking or breaking one or more of your ribs any time you sustain trauma to your chest. As the Mayo Clinic explains, broken ribs are a common result of motor vehicle accidents, falls and sports injuries. As you might expect, cracked ribs, while extremely...
The basics of medical malpractice cases
Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor, nurse, surgeon or other health professional is negligent in providing proper care, resulting in patient harm. Some of the more common examples of malpractice included birth injuries, misdiagnosis, surgical accidents and...
Tips to avoid rush-hour accidents
As many workplaces return to business as usual, traffic during rush hour has increased throughout Massachusetts. Drivers may be at risk for accidents as they acclimate to the higher volume of cars, trucks and motorcycles on the state's roads. Review these rush-hour...
What are physical signs of a TBI?
After suffering from a head injury, you are also likely to deal with injury to the brain, too. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to pinpoint signs of a brain injury. But with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), the signs are often easier to notice. While TBI signs come...
What can make neck strain a serious matter?
Suffering serious pain from an injury is something nobody should have to endure, yet it may happen if you slip and fall or get into an automobile collision. Sometimes an injury produces neck strain. This happens when one or multiple fibers in your neck muscles or...
Did you suffer a serious injury in a slip and fall?
You probably make sure to watch where you walk when you know that the potential for falling exists. However, while in a store, you are probably too busy looking for what you need to buy to pay close attention. Besides, you don't expect something on the floor to cause...
When accident injury leads to medical malpractice, who is liable?
When another vehicle careened across the solid yellow line and slammed into your car, you may have said a quick prayer and hoped for the best as you heard a loud crash. The next thing you remember is waking up on a gurney in the back of an ambulance as rescue workers...
Daydreaming may be your biggest risk factor behind the wheel
Like most Massachusetts residents, your life may be very busy. If you're married with children, you likely consider it a great challenge to find even a clear inch of space on your weekly calendar in which to write a new entry. Do you sometimes forget if you're coming...
Trucking toward recovery after an accident with a semitrailer
Truck accidents can be quite serious, and they have the potential to cause great harm to the people involved. This is especially true for Massachusetts motorists in smaller vehicles who may be hurt because of the reckless or negligent actions of the truck driver....
