Significant Cases and Referrals

Brad Henry and Michael Bogdanow were spotlighted in Lawyer's Weekly in September 2004 for a creative collaborative effort resulting in a $2.5 million dollar settlement for a severely injured jogger. Early one morning, a female jogger was struck from behind by an SUV operating on the wrong side of the road by a newspaper delivery-person. The case involved an imaginative challenge to the law protecting large newspapers and others from the liability of deliverers as "independent contractors," as well as an "Indiana Jones" type investigation in the Brazilian jungle to track down the driver of the SUV, an illegal immigrant who fled the U.S. immediately after the accident. See Lawyers Weekly's very interesting report of this case.

John Carroll and Brad Henry were reported in the December 2004 issue of Lawyers Weekly for an interesting and effective settlement involving a woman who was injured at an amusement park. While attempting to exit her cart at the end of the ride, the woman severely and permanently injured her leg. The case involved out of state defendants, out of country witnesses, and mastery of amusement park liability. See this link for more details.

Recent Noteworthy Settlements

In the year that it settled, according to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, our firm's $5.5 million settlement of a case arising from a head-on motor vehicle collision involving the fatigued driver of a fast-food chain vehicle was one of the ten highest settlements. In the accident, a parent and child were severely injured when the driver-employee fell asleep and crossed a highway centerline.

Also highlighted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly was the firm's $1.2 million settlement of a case arising from a highly-publicized shooting spree at a Massachusetts college. Our client, a campus security guard, was shot at close range by a disturbed student armed with an assault rifle. The case was brought against the gun shop alleged to have unlawfully sold the weapon, a mail-order ammunition dealer and college administrators who had received information that the student had a gun and was planning to kill someone but failed to contact the authorities or warn campus security.

The firm also reached a substantial settlement on behalf of a child who lost an eye when he was physically assaulted on a school bus by another student. Suit was filed against the student who committed the assault and the school bus company, which allegedly failed to take necessary steps to prevent the incident. The structured settlement will pay the plaintiffs more than $1 million over time.

Medical Malpractice Settlements

A $2 million dollar settlement was reached in a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of the estate of a woman who died of colon cancer as a result of her doctor's failure to have her undergo appropriate diagnostic testing.

The firm also obtained a substantial settlement which will pay the plaintiffs more than $1 million over time in another medical malpractice action involving a young woman who died from a system-wide infection stemming from chicken pox. The plaintiffs alleged that the hospital emergency room physicians were negligent in failing to administer antiviral medication to the patient in circumstances where steroids she was taking for an unrelated condition made her more susceptible to infection.

Santos v. Chrysler Corp., 430 Mass. 198 (1999)

U.S. Aviation Underwriters, Inc. v. Cash Air, Inc., 409 Mass. 694 (1991)

Guzman v. MRM/ELGIN, 409 Mass. 567 (1991)

Solimene v. B. Grauel & Co., K.G., 399 Mass. 790 (1987)

Scannell v. Ed. Ferreirinha & Irmao, LDA, 401 Mass. 155 (1987)

Gianocostas v. Riu Hotels, S.A., 59 Mass.App.Ct. 753 (2003)

Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co. v. Malacaria, 40 Mass. App. Ct. 184 (1996)

Alter v. City of Newton, 35 Mass. App. Ct. 142 (1993)

Santella v. Whynott, 27 Mass. App. Ct. 451 (1989)

Holtzman v. General Motors Corp., 15 Mass.L.Rptr. 15, 2002 WL 1923883 (Mass.Super. 2002)

Burgess v. Karchmer, 13 Mass.L.Rptr. 21, 2001 WL 369979 (Mass.Super. 2001)

Allen v. Chance Mfg. Co., Inc., 873 F.2d 465 (1st Cir. 1989)

Ciccone v. USAirways, Inc., 144 F.Supp.2d 30 (D. Mass. 2001)

RLI Ins. Co. v. General Star Indem. Co., 997 F.Supp. 140 (D. Mass 1998)

Sultis v. General Motors Corp., 690 F.Supp. 100 (D. Mass. 1988)

Roche v. American Red Cross, 680 F.Supp. 449 (D.Mass. 1988)

Gotz v. Delta Airlines, Inc., 12 F.Supp.2d 199 (D.Mass. 1998)

Referrals

Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C. provides referral fees to referring attorneys within the statutes and ethical guidelines of their respective states and jurisdictions. Many attorneys refer to us for a variety of reasons including cases that arise in our areas of specialty, cases that require extensive commitment of time, resources, or cases that present complex or unusual legal issues.

Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C. also regularly represents loved ones of out-of-state residents who are in Massachusetts, traveling through, attending the many colleges and universities in New England or for medical treatment at one of the many institutions in Massachusetts.

If you are interested in referrals to Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C. we are happy to confer and cooperate with you in meeting the expectations of you and your client.