A new study by the AAA Foundation for traffic safety found nearly 80% of drivers expressed significant anger, aggression or road rage behind the wheel at least once in the past year. The study shows that some drivers even resorted to purposefully ramming another vehicle or getting out of the car to confront another driver....
The Mass Injury Group has been named as one of the best personal injury lawyers on Boston by Expertise for the year 2016. Expertise.com looked at 285 Personal Injury Lawyers in Boston and picked The Mass Injury Group as one of the top 20. The List was hand picked by using a number of criteria...
A Plaintiff involved in a Motor Vehicle accident who was struck by another vehicle without Insurance filed suit in the Superior Court’s in an action she brought for bad faith denial of uninsured motorist (“UM”) coverage. An uninsured driver crashed into the Plaintiff’s car by improperly turning into her lane. The Plaintiff suffered a fractured...
Police in Michigan have arrested a man suspected of plowing his pickup truck into a group of bicyclists, killing five of them and seriously injuring four others. The driver left the scene, but a suspect, described as a 50-year old man, was apprehended a short while later, according to law enforcement. The District Attorney Office...
The death of a 10 year old boy from Kansas while riding the world’s tallest water slide has revived a call for change in the amusement park industry. Many advocates say there is a lack in federal oversight of our nation’s water park safety. The ten year old boy was killed while sliding down the...
Motor vehicle accidents remain the number one cause of Death for teens in the US. Just because a person obtains a drivers license, does not mean they are a safe driver. In fact, newly licensed drivers, regardless of their age, are at the highest risk for causing motor vehicle accidents. This is primarily due to...
According to the National News Claims Journal, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently handed out a $101,600.00 fine to Detyens Shipyards, Inc. of South Carolina due to various findings of serious safety violations. OSHA conducted a comprehensive inspection of their facility in December of 2014 and found many serious safety hazards that put their...
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has been studying the traffic conditions in almost 300 locations on and around the Bourne Bridge and the Sagamore Bridge, the two bridges that allow traffic to go to and from Cape Cod over the Canal. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has identified 82 areas which have the most frequent...
Each year, hundreds of truck drivers and other occupants of motor vehicles die across the country on congested roadways and antiquated exits ramps. Crumbling interstate highways designed in the 1950’s is causing serious hazards to truck drivers and other motor vehicle occupants. One study concluded truck rollovers are responsible for more than half of the...
Texting while operating a motor vehicle can have serious consequences. Obviously, drivers operating a motor vehicle will be distracted when they are responding to or sending emails or texts on a smart phone. There has been an increase in motor vehicle accidents caused by distracted drivers responding to texts or emails due to the increase...
