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Fall River pothole wreck? Medicare can take a bite out of your payout

A city road claim in Fall River can turn into a fight over notice, vehicle damage, lost income, and a Medicare payback that shrinks the settlement fast.

ARTICLE by Danny Callahan

Signed that hospital lien after a Worcester crash - did you just hand over your settlement?

A Worcester business owner hit from behind on a motorcycle needs to lock down evidence fast because a hospital lien can devour a decent claim if the proof is sloppy.

ARTICLE by Danny Callahan

$58,000 in bills after a Lowell brake-failure crash and now the rental car insurers are dodging each other

A Lowell HVAC tech got wrecked by a rental car with bad brakes, and the real fight turned into which insurer is supposed to pay.

ARTICLE by Joanne Kowalski

Insurance companies and defense lawyers often throw around "verdict" to scare injured people into settling cheap. They may hint that juries are unpredictable, that a courtroom...

Preserving Evidence After a Massachusetts Attic Fall

If you're an HVAC tech who went through a ceiling and everybody is pointing at somebody else, the evidence you grab in the first 48 hours can decide whether this stays "just workers comp" or turns into a real third-party claim too.

ARTICLE by Joanne Kowalski

This is the second scare this pregnancy, and now the insurer wants you talking before the monitoring bills hit

A pregnant pharmacist hit while walking on a Brockton road without a sidewalk can get squeezed from both sides fast: employer pressure, insurer surveillance, and settlement offers before the real medical costs show up.

ARTICLE by Sean Flaherty

No money for a lawyer after a wrong-way crash in Lowell - are you screwed before the truck's data disappears?

A Lowell HVAC tech got hit by a wrong-way truck and the biggest problem now is that the trucking company's electronic crash data may vanish fast if nobody moves.

ARTICLE by Rosa Tavares

My sister says settling before my kid's surgery is smarter because the insurer won't wait - is that actually true?

A parent in Cambridge is getting pushed to treat a serious injury like it's minor, while the insurance mess gets worse because the employer never carried workers' comp.

ARTICLE by Amit Desai

Losing, destroying, altering, or failing to preserve key evidence can directly reduce the value of a claim - or sink it entirely. When that happens, a court may limit defenses,...

A sworn written statement. "Sworn" means the person signing it affirms the contents are true, usually under penalty of perjury. "Written" matters because a declaration is meant...

After a wreck in the I-93 tunnels under downtown Boston, an excess verdict is a jury award or court judgment that comes in higher than the at-fault driver's insurance policy...

Missing work after an injury can drain a paycheck fast and put health insurance, job security, and a legal claim under pressure all at once. FMLA leave is job-protected, unpaid...

A New Bedford city truck changes the whole claim after a wrong-way crash

A wrong-way crash is bad enough, but when the truck belongs to the City of New Bedford the rules, deadlines, and payout limits get a lot harsher.

ARTICLE by Amit Desai

Insurance companies and defense lawyers sometimes talk about a filing deadline as if it were fixed in stone: miss it, and the case is over. That framing leaves out tolling,...

Not the same thing as a verdict, and not just the judge's personal opinion. A judgment is the court's final, enforceable decision about the parties' rights and obligations in a...

willful violation

Not a simple mistake, oversight, or ordinary carelessness. A willful violation involves a person or company knowingly breaking a legal duty, rule, or safety requirement, or...

statute of repose

You just got a letter that says your case is barred by the "statute of repose," even though you only recently learned how serious the harm was. That phrase means a hard legal...

constructive discharge

People often confuse this with a regular firing. A direct termination happens when an employer clearly ends the job. Constructive discharge happens when the employee resigns,...

Worcester crash with a firetruck and grain truck who pays if they're blaming each other?

The ER note helps you if it says your condition was aggravated by this crash. The insurance companies will use that same note to argue your back was already bad before today....

Why would a judge cut down a jury award after the trial is over? That is basically what remittitur means. It happens when a judge decides the amount of money awarded by a jury...