Specializing in wrongful death, major injuries and industrial accidents
Specializing in wrongful death, major injuries and industrial accidents
Pat Marino was a winthrop sialer who loved the ocean. Pat helped people launch boats at a local marina that had a WW1-era hoisting crane. One day the marina hired a local company to pour a new concrete driveway. The company failed to adhere to engineering principles and merely lifted the three ton machine, poured concrete, and set it back down with simple screws into the new concrete. The next time Pat used the machine it raised up on one corner, and pivoted into Pat, crushing him against the marina building. When first responders extricated Pat, his crush injuries began bleeding beyond control. He died at Mass General that day.
Attorney Matheson obtained maximum coverage against the negligent contractor, and additional coverage from the marina. This required Attorney Matheson to prevail in a concurrent declaratory action in the U.S. District Court filed by a major London insurer which had an exclusion in its policy for the marina's contributory negligence.
In a case rejected by a large Boston Firm that did not see the opportunity, Attorney Matheson took the case days before the statute of limitations expired. Here, a foreman at a laboratory in the Longwood Medical Area being constructed for a top three bigt Pharma Corp. slid on corogated plastic and fell into construction material. The coroplast was used as floor protection from workmans' boots during construction.
Attorney Matheson proved that the material had an excessive slip coefficient in violation of building code, and that the plaintiff suffered permanent loss of earning capacity due to third party negligence of the project manager and the pharma corp. Experts included a wage economist, industrial engineer and a harvard trained surgeon who opined on the plaintiff's multi-level disc hernaitioin with nerve impingements. Attorney Matheson further obtained a lien waiver, which fully paid for the plaitniff's extensive medical care and lost wages.
Private Murphy died in a motor vehicle accident while visiting with family on leave from the Army. The 18-year-old had joined friends in Halifax, MA, at a restaurant that was notorious for not checking ID and over-serving young customers. While pulling into his own driveway, he took the turn too fast, flipping the vehicle on its side and roof-first into a large tree.
Attorney Matheson recovered the maximum insurance coverage from two policies, despite a vigorous defense and difficult facts in this dram-shop action.
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