This evening, a 3-year-old Woburn boy was submerged underwater in a swimming pool and lost his life. Woburn law enforcement officials were dispatched to the boy’s home on Marlbourough Road close to 5:00 p.m. in response to a 911 report about a child that could not be located. When the…
There are many ways a child can get injured at even the most well staffed daycare facility in Boston. Even with proper supervision and the best safety protection, children tend to run and trip and that can result in a serious personal injury. While your child can fall and become…
In Massachusetts, corporal punishment is illegal. This means that a teacher, coach or anyone else at your child’s school cannot use spanking, paddling or any other type of physical force as a means of discipline. This has not always been the case and is still not the rule in some other…
While you or you child can get injured during most sports, some are more dangerous than others. When we think of head injuries, football is often at the top at list. This is to the point where many parents, even former athletes, will not let their kids play the game…
Animal attacks happen a lot more often than people realize in cities such as Boston and across the nation. In most cases, we are talking about cases that involve dogs and other common household pets, though some instances do involve exotic animals people choose to keeps pets, such as chimpanzees. While many…
Skiing and snowboarding are very popular in Massachusetts and throughout the greater New England area. There will be many people hitting the slopes each weekend until there is no snow left on the ground. While this can be a great deal of fun, it can also be dangerous. In some cases,…
Benda v. Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, a case from the Supreme Court of Utah, involves a 14-year-old student who was injured while working as part of the set crew on a play performed by the school’s drama department. The drama teacher told the student to climb a lift…
No matter how well the visit to a prospective daycare facility goes, or how well trained the staff members seem to be, there is still some degree of anxiety experienced by most parents when they drop their child those first few times. According to a recent news feature from NBC,…
Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers was recognized recently by the esteemed Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly after having secured the largest injury settlement in the Commonwealth for a full year. A child injury lawsuit filed on behalf of the parents of a Boston baby who due to a medical mistake now suffers cerebral palsy, spastic quadriplegia…
In the largest furniture recall in American history, Swedish company IKEA has recalled more than 29 million chests and drawers following the third child death and dozens of child injuries in three years. Based on data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), not only is this furniture recall the…