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Today a Suffolk County jury awarded a man $13M for serious personal injuries he sustained after being struck by a motor vehicle. The case name is William T. Dodge v. Arda Tezel. With interest, the verdict comes to approximately $16M. The plaintiff was however assessed 1% comparative negligence by the jury. I will provide more information on this case as it becomes available.
Boston attorney Dmitry Lev has recently started the Boston Bankruptcy Blog which provides information to those considering filing for personal bankruptcy in Massachusetts. In the last couple of years the bankruptcy laws have been revised considerably. Check out attorney Lev's blog if you have questions regarding bankruptcy.
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, a weekly publication for lawyers on news and developments in Massachusetts law, has recently launched Exhibit A. Exhibit A is a monthly newsletter written by lawyers and intended for non-lawyers. It is written in a way which makes the law a little less confusing and easier to understand. It is a FREE monthly publication you can pick up at most MBTA stations. The newsletter covers many different legal topics which you may find useful if you have specific legal questions, or, if you are just interested in the law generally.
Boston pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman, MD was recently sued in connection with his alleged failure to diagnose diabetes in a young child. A medical malpractice suit was brought against Lindeman in the Suffolk Superior Court due to the death of the child. Remarkably, during the trial, Lindeman created a blog under the pseudonym "Flea" and during his trial posted material to the blog revealing, among other things, private conversations he had had with his defense attorneys regarding trial strategies. "Flea" took down his blog recently and the medical malpractice case settled.
Here is the Boston Globe article published on May 31, 2007 regarding this puzzling and engrossing story:
It was a Perry Mason moment updated for the Internet age.
As Ivy League-educated pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman sat on the stand in Suffolk Superior Court this month, defending himself in a malpractice suit involving the death of a 12-year-old patient, the opposing counsel startled him with a question.
Was Lindeman Flea?
Flea, jurors in the case didn't know, was the screen name for a blogger who had written often and at length about a trial remarkably similar to the one that was going on in the courtroom that day.
In his blog, Flea had ridiculed the plaintiff's case and the plaintiff's lawyer. He had revealed the defense strategy. He had accused members of the jury of dozing.
With the jury looking on in puzzlement, Lindeman admitted that he was, in fact, Flea.
The next morning, on May 15, he agreed to pay what members of Boston's tight-knit legal community describe as a substantial settlement -- case closed.
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