Massachusetts personal injury guides: bicycle and pedestrian crashes, slip and fall, insurance, and liability.
Almost everyone hit on a bike in Cambridge, Massachusetts hears the same number early on: you have three years. That number is real and it is in the statute book. …
A parent whose child gets hit by a car while biking in Cambridge, Massachusetts tends to ask two questions in the first phone call. Is my kid going to be …
Almost every cyclist who calls after being hit by a car in Cambridge, Massachusetts asks some version of the same question within the first two minutes. What is this worth. …
It is the first question almost everyone asks after a bad fall, and it is the one question a careful lawyer will not answer with a number on a first …
Maybe you rolled through a red light on Massachusetts Avenue because the cross street looked empty, or rode the sidewalk in Central Square to get around a double parked truck, …
You were riding through Cambridge, Massachusetts, a driver hit you, and you were not wearing a helmet. Somewhere between the emergency room and the first call from the insurance adjuster, …
A fall on a dark stairwell or a broken step in an apartment building is one of the most common ways Massachusetts tenants get seriously hurt at home. These cases …
Rideshare traffic is a fixture of Cambridge streets. According to the state Department of Public Utilities, more than 5.5 million Uber and Lyft trips began inside Cambridge city limits in …
Cambridge has spent years building out a network of protected bike lanes, but a foot of snow does not care about paint and flex posts. When a storm hits, the …
Buckled brick in Cambridge, frost heaved concrete in Worcester, tree root cracks in Springfield. When someone trips on a broken public sidewalk and fractures a wrist or a hip, the …
Most bike accident claims start with a driver: a car that turned across your path, a door that opened into traffic, a truck that passed too close. But some of …
Cambridge has spent six years building out a network of physically separated bike lanes, but a large share of the city’s bike lane mileage is still just paint on asphalt, …
A produce spill in the vegetable aisle, a leaking freezer case, a puddle tracked in near the entrance on a rainy day. These are the falls that fill Massachusetts emergency …
Cross a street in Cambridge often enough and you learn to watch for the driver who does not watch for you. Most crossings end the way they should. When one …
A driver drifts across the bike lane on Massachusetts Avenue, clips your rear wheel, and sends you to the pavement. By the time you sit up and take stock of …