Despite the growing base of knowledge doctors and researchers are building on the problem of head injuries and traumatic brain injury (TBI), there is still a lot we don’t know. For this reason, any new study that is being performed has the potential to include some major breakthroughs. Even if…
As the weather gets colder, many people will be getting their equipment ready and heading to slopes for skiing and snowboarding this winter season. Many will go to the various ski resorts in Massachusetts and many more will head to the bigger mountains in Vermont and Maine and other parts…
Every year during the fall, people enjoy going to local pumpkin patches, and, in addition to getting pumpkins and apples, they like to watch pumpkins getting fired out of cannons. There are various different types of pumpkin launchers, but they are generally powered pneumatically (compressed air) or with some type…
While hunting is not an activity that occurs in Boston proper, there are plenty of areas in the Commonwealth where people do go hunting on a regular basis, as well as in the surrounding states of New England. Many of these area have professional hunting guides that advertise in Boston to…
A recent news article from Philly.com takes a look at the high risk of suffering an eye injury while engaged in paintball activities. To be clear, we are talking about people engaged in sanctioned paintball completions like the ones held a paintball centers around Boston and throughout Massachusetts. The results…
Following the death of Jose Fernandez, the baseball world was in a state of shock. We saw his teammate Dee Gordon hit the longest home run of his career and then break into tears while rounding the bases. We saw all of the Miami Marlins wearing Fernandez jerseys with his…
Hollaway v. Direct Gen. Ins. Co. of Miss., Inc., a case from the Supreme Court of Kentucky, involved a car accident in the parking lot of an apartment complex where the vehicles were both traveling at very low speeds. There were differing accounts of what actually happened in this car…
At some point in our lives, most of us have engaged in an activity for which we were required to sign a release of liability. If we have children, we have certainly had to sign participation forms for our children before they are allowed to go on field trips or…
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,…