After decades of successful personal injury and wrongful death litigation, KJC Law Firm and Sheff Law are merging to form Sheff & Cook. Management will be shared between Douglas K. Sheff and our own Kathy Jo Cook, both tenacious litigators who share a philosophy of maximizing restitution for each and every one of their clients. […]
The Massachusetts court system is one of the oldest of its kind in the country and handles hundreds of trials each year. You might be surprised to learn that only around 5% of personal injury cases actually make it that far, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The majority of these types of cases […]
If you’ve ever read through a contract or examined the fine print of a warranty, you know the letter of the law can be dense and confusing stuff. It becomes even more complicated once you become involved in actual legal proceedings. In light of this, we’ve put together our “Legalese, Translated” blog post series. Each […]
When it comes to discrimination, people often talk in code. Rarely do we hear the classic hateful epithets for races, gender, or sexual orientation, at least not from employers when they are making decisions about employees. A few recent articles point out the subtle, or sometimes not so subtle, code words and phrases that have […]
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families and Department of Public Health want to remind you that summertime carries special dangers for children. In a press release, they highlight three areas: windows, water, and cars. In the summertime, we open our windows up, and children fall from open windows, sometimes to their death. A window […]
The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that Fisher-Price has initiated a voluntary recall of its Little People Play ‘n Go Campsite, a seven-piece plastic play toy which includes a figure called “Sonya Lee.” Only Sonya Lee figures that bend at the waist and bear the product number R6935 are part of the recall. […]
A list of the top ten consumer complaints for 2009 was just released a few days ago by the Consumer Federation of America, the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators, and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators. The three major consumer groups jointly conducted a survey of several state, county, and city consumer agencies from […]
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) today eliminated the ancient distinction between “natural” and “unnatural” accumulations of ice and snow, making property owners liable for injuries caused by their negligent creation or failure to eliminate both kinds of winter hazards. Calling the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of ice and snow a “relic” derived […]
The Foxboro Reporter reported today that a 62 year old bicycle rider was injured Sunday when he hit a pothole on Route 140 in Foxboro. John Polacek was wearing a helmet and riding properly with traffic when the pothole flipped his bicycle. Polacek landed on his head and suffered serious spinal injuries. He was airlifted […]
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced today that injured people will be allowed to introduce the full charges on their medical bills as evidence of their damages at trial despite the Superior Court’s ruling otherwise. The case, Law v. Griffith, was argued by Kathy Jo Cook of KJC Law Firm LLC in Boston. Professor Timothy […]
Aerosmith guitarist, 59-year-old Joe Perry, was hospitalized last week after his motorcycle was hit from behind while he was traveling in Middleboro. Fortunately for Perry, he suffered only a back injury and some minor cuts and bruises. Edmund Lindberg, a 28-year-old Iraqi war veteran and Worcester County Jail Correctional officer whose motorcycle was struck days […]
On July 15, 2010, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held in DiNitto v. Town of Pepperell that two motorcyclists who were injured when they failed to stop at a hidden stop sign could not recover from the town because they had failed to give the town the 30 day notice required by the Massachusetts highway defect […]
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